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13-letter words containing c, i, n, s, e, l

  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • selenium cell — a photovoltaic cell consisting of a thin strip of selenium placed between two metal electrodes.
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sendmail inc. — (company)   The company, announced in November 1997 and launched in March 1998, created by Eric Allman, the original author of Sendmail. Allman is Chief Technology Officer, Greg Olson is President and CEO. Sendmail Inc. will sell commercial upgrades, service and support to Internet Service Providers and corporations running critical e-mail applications, while still continuing freeware development. Allman said that he devoted the fist six months of the life of Sendmail Inc. to finalising the freeware release. A commercial version was due in summer 1998, at around $1000 per server. The company is expected to reach $40m annual sales within three years. Funding is in the region of $1.25m. Address: Emeryville, California, USA.
  • seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
  • senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • single ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • single-celled — having or containing a single cell
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • special needs — learning difficulties
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • speech clinic — a place at which specialists in speech therapy reeducate those with a speech handicap.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
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