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

  • psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
  • recalcitrants — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
  • recessionista — a person whose clothes, whether cheap, second-hand, or suitably subdued, are considered appropriate to an economic downturn
  • recitationist — someone who gives recitations
  • reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • resting place — grave
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • return crease — one of two lines marked at right-angles to each bowling crease, from inside which a bowler must deliver the ball
  • sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • 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.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • second advent — Second Coming.
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • second estate — the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the lords temporal in England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • 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.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
  • seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
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