13-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, i
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sister carrie — a novel (1900) by Theodore Dreiser.
- skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- stare decisis — the doctrine that rules or principles of law on which a court rested a previous decision are authoritative in all future cases in which the facts are substantially the same.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- 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
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- 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
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.