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

  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • 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-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • 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-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • 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-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • 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-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semicivilized — half or partly civilized.
  • semiclassical — of or relating to music by classical composers that is familiar or appealing to the general public.
  • semiempirical — partly empirical
  • semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • 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
  • serial-access — sequential-access.
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • service clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • 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
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