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13-letter words containing c, l, i, p, e, r

  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resting place — grave
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • 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.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semiempirical — partly empirical
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • service clasp — clasp (def 4).
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
  • slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • 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.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • tricarpellary — having three carpels.
  • triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
  • trophic level — any class of organisms that occupy the same position in a food chain, as primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
  • tropical year — year (def 4b).
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
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