13-letter words containing c, l, e, a, n, s
- 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.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
- 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 island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- spice islands — the Moluccas
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
- state control — government ownership
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- sunset clause — time limit written into a law
- supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- sustentacular — supporting.
- sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
- synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- unchastisable — not deserving to be chastised; beyond reproach
- uncleanliness — unclean.
- uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
- undescendable — unable to be descended or walked upon
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- undiscussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- unethicalness — lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
- unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unrespectable — not able to be respected
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.