13-letter words containing c, a, u, s
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
- 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.
- satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
- sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
- self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
- semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
- semiautomatic — partly automatic.
- sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
- sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
- sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
- social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
- sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- somar dumpacl — (tool) A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- space capsule — Aerospace. capsule (def 5).
- space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.