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13-letter words containing c, e, a, s, f

  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • 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
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • 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 fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • specbase_fp92 — A variant of SPECfp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
  • specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • specrate_fp92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • staff canteen — a canteen or cafeteria in a company, establishment, etc, for members of staff to eat at
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
  • staff section — section (def 10b).
  • stock footage — film containing stock shots.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • 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
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