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13-letter words containing r, s

  • airplane spin — a maneuver in which a wrestler, grasping an opponent by the head and crotch, lifts the opponent's body crosswise overhead, lowers it to the shoulders for support, then spins around and throws the opponent back over the head to the mat.
  • airworthiness — (of an aircraft) meeting established standards for safe flight; equipped and maintained in condition to fly.
  • albertosaurus — A giant fierce carnivorous tyrannosaurus-like dinosaur, of gemus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.
  • aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
  • aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
  • aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
  • alexis carrel — Alexis [uh-lek-sis;; French a-lek-see] /əˈlɛk sɪs;; French a lɛkˈsi/ (Show IPA), 1873–1944, French surgeon and biologist, in U.S. 1905–39: Nobel Prize 1912.
  • alfred austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • alice springs — a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)
  • alkane series — the homologous series of saturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons having the general formula C n H 2n+2 , as methane, CH 4 , or ethane, C 2 H 6 .
  • alkene series — the homologous series of unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons containing one double bond and having the general formula C n H 2n , as ethylene, H 2 C=CH 2 .
  • alligatorfish — a slender marine fish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius, of Atlantic seas, having overlapping plates covering the body.
  • alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
  • alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
  • alpha orionis — Betelgeuse
  • alpha scorpii — Antares
  • alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
  • alsike clover — a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.
  • alstroemerias — Plural form of alstroemeria.
  • alterableness — The state or quality of being alterable.
  • alternateness — The state or quality of being alternate.
  • alternativism — The rejection of a social normality through the pursuit of alternatives.
  • althorp house — a mansion in Northamptonshire: seat of the Earls Spencer since 1508; originally a medieval house; altered (1787) to its present neoclassical style by Henry Holland. Diana, Princess of Wales is buried on Round Oval Island in the centre of the ornamental lake in Althorp Park
  • aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
  • amarantaceous — amaranthine
  • ambassadorial — Ambassadorial means belonging or relating to an ambassador.
  • ambidexterous — ambidextrous
  • ambimoustrous — able to use a computer mouse proficiently with either hand
  • ambrette seed — the seed of the abelmosk.
  • ambroise pare — Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
  • america's cup — an international yachting trophy, first won by the schooner America in 1851 and held as a challenge trophy by the New York Yacht Club until 1983
  • amicus curiae — a person not directly engaged in a case who advises the court
  • amor asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits approach but do not cross that of the earth: named after the first such asteroid discovered (1932).
  • amorphousness — lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
  • amphigastrium — any of the small leaves or appendages on the under surface of the stem of some liverworts
  • amphiprostyle — (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends but not at the sides
  • amphitheaters — Plural form of amphitheater.
  • amphitheatres — Plural form of amphitheatre.
  • amphitrichous — having a single flagellum at each end.
  • amphotericins — Plural form of amphotericin.
  • anachronistic — You say that something is anachronistic when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
  • anachronously — in an anachronous manner
  • anagrammatise — To produce an anagram of (a piece of text).
  • anagrammatism — The creation of anagrams.
  • anagrammatist — A creator (finder) of anagrams, one who comes up with anagrams.
  • anaphrodisiac — tending to lessen sexual desire
  • anchorpersons — Plural form of anchorperson.
  • ancus marcius — a king of Rome, during whose reign the first bridge across the Tiber was constructed.
  • andersen nexo — Nexö, Martin Andersen.
  • andersonville — town in SW central Ga.: site of a Confederate prison in the Civil War
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