13-letter words containing b, c, i
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- space biology — exobiology.
- 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
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcinctorium — an embroidered silk vestment resembling, but somewhat broader than, a maniple, worn by the pope on solemn occasions.
- subclavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- subcollection — the act of collecting.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subcommission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- subconcession — the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no concession to caution.
- subconscience — an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
- subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
- subcontinuous — almost but not quite continuous
- subcoriaceous — almost leathery
- subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- subindication — the act or process of subindicating
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- subject index — alphabetical contents list
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- 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
- subspecialize — to specialize in a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- suburbicarian — being near the city of Rome.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- symbolic link — (file format) (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
- table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
- table licence — a licence authorizing the sale of alcoholic drinks with meals only
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly