13-letter words containing c, a, r, i, n, l
- santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- tercentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- translocation — a change of location.
- trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
- triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
- tricentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ultraromantic — extremely romantic
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- unappreciable — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- unarticulated — not articulated
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
- uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undirectional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- ungrammatical — grammatically incorrect or awkward; not conforming to the rules or principles of grammar or accepted usage: an ungrammatical sentence.
- unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unicorn plant — a North American plant, Proboscidea (Martynia) louisianica, having creamy-white to red flowers blotched with purple, and a woody capsule with a long, curved beak.
- unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unpracticable — impracticable.
- unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.