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

  • 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.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • 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.
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • 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
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • 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.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • structuralize — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • 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
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
  • 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
  • telluric acid — a white, toxic, crystalline compound, H 6 TeO 6 , slightly soluble in cold water, soluble in hot water and alkalis: used as an analytical agent.
  • tercentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • theatricality — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • theatricalize — to put into dramatic or theatrical form; dramatize.
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • therapeutical — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
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