13-letter words containing c, i, t, r, e, o
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spectroscopic — an optical device for producing and observing a spectrum of light or radiation from any source, consisting essentially of a slit through which the radiation passes, a collimating lens, and an Amici prism.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- stereognostic — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- 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.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- supercautious — very or extremely cautious
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- 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
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.