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13-letter words containing a, c, e, d, s

  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • stand accused — If someone stands accused of something, they have been accused of it.
  • standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
  • stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
  • stare decisis — the doctrine that rules or principles of law on which a court rested a previous decision are authoritative in all future cases in which the facts are substantially the same.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
  • transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendents — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
  • trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
  • unascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • unconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
  • unconstrained — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • unconsummated — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
  • uncreatedness — the condition of being uncreated
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • under hatches — below decks
  • underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
  • undescendable — unable to be descended or walked upon
  • undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
  • undiscussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • undissociated — not dissociated, especially into ions or into simpler molecules.
  • undomesticate — to make wild
  • unencompassed — to form a circle about; encircle; surround: He built a moat to encompass the castle.
  • unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
  • unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
  • unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • unspecialized — not specialized
  • unstercorated — not stercorated or covered in dung
  • videocassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • west caldwell — a town in NE New Jersey.
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