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

  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • sunset clause — time limit written into a law
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
  • supercautious — very or extremely cautious
  • supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • supracellular — beyond the limits or above the level of cells.
  • suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
  • supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • sustentacular — supporting.
  • sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
  • sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
  • tartare sauce — a mayonnaise dressing for fish and seafood, usually with chopped pickles, onions, olives, capers, and green herbs added.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
  • tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
  • tax schedules — the different ways of classifying income under tax law
  • tenaciousness — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • thesaurus.com — a popular free online dictionary of synonyms and antonyms: Thesaurus.com.
  • tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • toxicophagous — poison-eating
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