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13-letter words that end in le

  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quarter eagle — a gold coin of the U.S. (issued 1796–1929), one fourth of an eagle.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • queens puzzle — eight queens puzzle
  • raggle-taggle — ragtag.
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
  • rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • rat-tail file — a long, narrow file having a circular cross section.
  • razzle-dazzle — showiness, brilliance, or virtuosity in technique or effect, often without concomitant substance or worth; flashy theatricality: The razzle-dazzle of the essay's metaphors cannot disguise its shallowness of thought.
  • real variable — a variable to which only real numbers are assigned as values.
  • rearrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
  • réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
  • richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • running title — Printing. running head.
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • semi-flexible — partially flexible; involving or possessing some flexibility
  • semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
  • silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
  • social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
  • space capsule — Aerospace. capsule (def 5).
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • split spindle — a turned piece halved lengthwise for use as applied ornament, as on a chest or cupboard, or as part of a chair back or the like.
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