13-Letter Words Containing R

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

""SEDENTARY Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. as, a sedentary man.""

Sempiternal

Sensitometer

Photography

""Of, relating to, or involving the sensory nerves, especially as they affect the hearing: sensorineural deafness.""

Property of sheep and goats in story, in different senses

One wanting to secede

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Rendering a person bankrupt

Legal seizure

Serendipity

Occurring by happy chance

Able to make lucky discoveries

Chance used to inspire anagrams

SERIALIZE SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

He raises silkworms

Seriousness

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Serological

Serpiginous

Serriedness

Servileness

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of certain terpenes whose molecules contain one and a half times as many atoms as a normal terpene. Formula: C 15 H 24 SPELEOTHERAPY (Medicine) a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease""

Some new retirees

People in their seventh decade

Sharecropper

SHARECROP

SWAT team specialists

*Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, for two

Observant weapons are used to sniping

Expert firing cheats, then laughing loudly

Irish instrument in ship mimicking owl could take the head off you from way out

Sheepherding

Sheepshearer

Fleece cutting

What a call from Bo Peep depends on (wordplay)

Australian sport

Shellcracker

She twice pressed around women like Chloe

Mary was one of them - she repeatedly pressed for change

Shortchanger

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Sporting attractions on cruise liners

Silverberry

Silveriness

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Silviculture

Sincereness

Singularity

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

""Geology A chemical sediment or crust, as of porous silica, deposited by a mineral spring.""

Siphonophore

SKATEBOARDER skateboard

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

Skeletonizer

Skulduggery

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Slenderness

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

Unprincipled politicians

SNOWBOARDING snowboard

Of or involving both social and cultural factors.

Softhearted

Solarization

Abstract noun (-ity)

English word

Soliloquizer

Somatopleure

Of or relating to the perception of sensory stimuli from the skin and internal organs: the somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex.

Variant of somatotropin .

Somatotropin

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

SONNETEERING sonneteer

Sorbability

Sorrowful

Soteriology

Preventing transmission of noise

That'll keep things quiet all over the house at last

""SOUTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

""A southeastward direction, point, or region.""

Southernwood

""To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.""

""A southwestward direction, point, or region.""

Sovereignty

SPARKPLUG

Speakerphone

In a strikingly dramatic manner

In an ostentatious way

In impressive style

The office or quality of a spectator.

Spectrograph

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Spectrometer

A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.

Spectroscope

""SPECTROSCOPE An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.""

Specularity

Speechwriter

Spermatocyte

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

Pl. spermatogonia (-n - ) Any of the cells of the gonads in male organisms that are the progenitors of spermatocytes.

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Spermatozoan

Spermatozoid

Sphygmograph

Spinsterhood

Spiritualism

Spiritualist

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Spiritualize

The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritualminded; spirituality.

Spiritualty

SPIROCHETE

SPIROCHETE

Magnificent, impressive

Rather wonderful

Brilliant spies flounder after ill-treatment

Spokesperson

A polymer that constitutes the outer wall of spores and pollen grains.

Sportfishing

They may say, "Going, going, gone!"

Commentators without much to do these days

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

Sense of fair play

Spirit of good baseball.

Playing the game

Certain journalists

Specialized reporting

Sprachgefuhl

A. The act of spreading.

Youthful agility

(Of an older person) energy, lively quality

Agility

Springiness

Attendant with historical records (five lost) for certain governments

Staggerbush

Standardbred

All the same, that's making it

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Starchiness

Man in charge at Waterloo (wordplay)

Man in command at Waterloo (wordplay)

He has training in being the boss

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

Stegosaurus

They work for dictators

Working girls.

Stenography

Stepdaughter

Stepparent

""Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.""

Stereograph

""STEREOGRAPH Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.""

Stereoisomer

The study of three-dimensional properties of objects or matter usually observed two-dimensionally.

Stereophony

Stereopticon

English word

Stereoscopy

Conventionalised novel operatic style

Operatic style devised in keeping with stock character

Hackneyed

""The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.""

""With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.""

Sternutation

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stickhandler

Stigmasterol

They are paid to sit about and write records

Magistrates getting gratuity in money on the records

Stockbreeder

Stockbroking

""The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.""

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

Storyboard

Storytelling

'97 Son Volt album about driving (wordplay)

Straightbred

Rulers

""STRAIGHTENER One who, or that which, straightens.""

De-kinking

Aligning

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

Coats worn on waterways (wordplay)

Perhaps no army movement in them in asylums

Small quality potato skins for violent prisoners

How Victorians acted

Strangeness

They'll take your breath away

Throttling, twisting gag in last turn

The choking off of a flow

Choking from lungs' atria not working

Process of choking

According to plan

South pathetically clutching table's ends with finesse

""The study of rock strata, especially the distribution, deposition, and age of sedimentary rocks.""

Stratocracy

""Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.""

Stratosphere

Sky-high (informal)

Unusually, orchestra pit's very high

Belonging to the upper air

Pl. stratovolcanos A volcano composed of alternating layers of lava and ash.

Streakiness

Streetwalker

""A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets.""

Energizing agents

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.

Strenuosity

Strenuous

""Of, relating to, or caused by a streptococcus.""

STREPTOCOCCI

Bacterium causing sore throat etc

Genus of bacteria

Bacterium often causing infection

""A proteolytic enzyme that is produced by hemolytic streptococci, is capable of converting plasminogen to plasmin, and is used medically to dissolve blood clots.""

Streptolysin

English word

Streptomycin

Stridulation

Picket line crosser, maybe

Hit by wave, one labours on regardless

Scab caused by blow wave

Stringcourse

Stringiness

""STROBILATION The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

Stromatolite

STROMATOLITE

Strontianite

Strophanthin

Technique for literary criticism

One studying patterns of thought, behaviour, etc