13-letter words containing a, l, s, i, r, t
- sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
- scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-starting — starter (def 3).
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- septentrional — northern; boreal
- serial rapist — someone who carries out a series of rapes
- serial rights — the rights to reprint or publish a serial or as a serial
- serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
- serialization — to publish in serial form.
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- sidereal time — time measured by the diurnal motion of stars. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, with hours, minutes, and seconds all proportionally shorter.
- silent barter — dumb barter.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single thread — the execution of an entire task from beginning to end without interruption
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- single-seater — a vehicle that has only one seat
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
- sirloin steak — cut of beef
- sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
- slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.