13-letter words containing a, t, e, f, c, r
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- 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.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- specrate_fp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
- 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.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unrectifiable — able to be rectified.
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vertical file — a collection of pamphlets, pictures, clippings, or other materials stored upright, as in a filing cabinet or cabinets.
- x-certificate — a film classification indicating a film that may not be publicly shown to anyone under 18. Since 1982 replaced by symbol 18