13-letter words containing a, s, c, n
- sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
- take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- tenaciousness — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
- the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- 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
- thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
- 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.
- time constant — the time required for a changing quantity in a circuit, as voltage or current, to rise or fall approximately 0.632 of the difference between its old and new value after an impulse has been applied that induces such a change: equal in seconds to the inductance of the circuit in henries divided by its resistance in ohms.
- to one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- tractarianism — the religious opinions and principles of the Oxford movement, especially in its early phase, given in a series of 90 papers called Tracts for the Times, published at Oxford, England, 1833–41.
- 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.
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- transcaucasia — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- 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.
- transcription — the act or process of transcribing.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transcultural — across all cultures of the world
- translocation — a change of location.