13-letter words containing a, t, s, b, c
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- 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.
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- 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
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- 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.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
- step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
- subindication — the act or process of subindicating
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- unrespectable — not able to be respected
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unstaunchable — incapable of being stopped
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).