13-letter words containing a, c, e, s, p
- special needs — learning difficulties
- special offer — bargain
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- specialities' — specialty.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
- specification — the act of specifying.
- specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
- specrate_fp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
- spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- 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.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- spice islands — the Moluccas
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
- steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- subappearance — a slight appearance
- subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subspecialize — to specialize in a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
- superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
- supercautious — very or extremely cautious
- supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes