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13-letter words containing c, l, o, n, e

  • retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • 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.
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • 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-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
  • sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • 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.
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
  • state control — government ownership
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
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