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

  • 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.
  • sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • 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.
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • uncloudedness — the quality or state of being unclouded or free of clouds
  • uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
  • unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
  • uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • violoncellist — cellist.
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
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