13-letter words containing a, s, c, r, i
- sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- sarcodinians' — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- 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).
- 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
- scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
- scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
- 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
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
- 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.
- scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
- scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
- scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- 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.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- seismic array — a system of linked seismographs arranged in a regular geometric pattern to increase sensitivity to earthquake detection
- 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-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.