13-letter words containing a, s, c, e, t
- saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
- safari jacket — bush jacket.
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
- scare tactics — tactics designed to cause fear or alarm
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- scatteredness — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- scatterometer — a radar sensor for measuring the backscatter of light from the ocean's surface
- scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
- scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
- scene-stealer — a performer in a play, motion picture, etc., who by charm, talent, or artifice, draws most of the audience's attention, often away from the leading performers.
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scotch-hearth — ore hearth.
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- scratch score — an estimated number of strokes for a hole or course that a scratch player should make
- scratch sheet — a racing publication giving the betting odds and other information on the horses entered at a racetrack or racetracks during a racing day.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- script reader — playreader.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
- second advent — Second Coming.
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- second estate — the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the lords temporal in England. Compare estate (def 5).
- second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.