13-letter words containing c, e, r, t, i, n
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
- tercentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the antarctic — Antarctica and the surrounding waters
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
- tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
- tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
- to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
- tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- train service — provision of railway transport
- trans-oceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
- trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
- triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
- tricentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
- trichothecene — any of a group of toxins derived from various imperfect fungi, as of the genera Fusarium and Trichothecium.
- trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
- tropic-cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- trotting race — a horse race using trotters.
- truchet point — (unit, text) An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
- tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- tuberculinize — to inoculate with tuberculin.
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film