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13-letter words containing c, a, t, s

  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • sarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • 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.
  • scan register — (electronics, testing)   A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • 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
  • scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • scatteredness — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
  • scatterometer — a radar sensor for measuring the backscatter of light from the ocean's surface
  • 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
  • scene-stealer — a performer in a play, motion picture, etc., who by charm, talent, or artifice, draws most of the audience's attention, often away from the leading performers.
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
  • schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • 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.
  • scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • scintillation — the act of scintillating; sparkling.
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