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13-letter words containing a, s, c, e, r, t

  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • sustentacular — supporting.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • 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
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • tartare sauce — a mayonnaise dressing for fish and seafood, usually with chopped pickles, onions, olives, capers, and green herbs added.
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
  • train service — provision of railway transport
  • trans-oceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
  • 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.
  • transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • transcendents — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
  • transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
  • transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • unascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • uncertainness — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
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