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13-letter words containing c, n, s, t, i

  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
  • resting place — grave
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
  • retrospection — the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • s corporation — An S corporation is a type of corporation in which the owners are taxed for any taxable income on their individual returns.
  • sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
  • sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • saint vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
  • sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
  • scan register — (electronics, testing)   A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
  • scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
  • scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
  • scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • scintillation — the act of scintillating; sparkling.
  • scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
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