13-letter words containing a, s, c, e, i
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sister carrie — a novel (1900) by Theodore Dreiser.
- skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
- social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
- 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 gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
- 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
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
- solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space biology — exobiology.
- space carrier — a vehicle designed to put payloads in orbit about the earth or to boost payloads for extraterrestrial exploration.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
- space lattice — lattice (def 4).
- space science — any of the sciences involved in space travel or the exploration of space, as space medicine.
- space station — an orbiting manned structure that can be used for a variety of purposes, as to assemble or service satellites, refuel spacecraft, etc.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- spear carrier — a supernumerary in a theatrical or operatic production, as one of a group of soldiers or a member of a crowd; extra.
- special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.