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

  • subcontinuous — almost but not quite continuous
  • subindication — the act or process of subindicating
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subject index — alphabetical contents list
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • successionist — a person who advocates a succession (of an office, throne, title etc), esp in ecclesiology, the apostolic succession
  • succinctorium — subcinctorium.
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • 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
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • tenaciousness — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the decencies — those things that are considered necessary for a decent life
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • thick-skinned — having a thick skin.
  • thieves' cant — slang used by thieves
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • tilting chest — a medieval chest decorated with a representation of a tournament.
  • time constant — the time required for a changing quantity in a circuit, as voltage or current, to rise or fall approximately 0.632 of the difference between its old and new value after an impulse has been applied that induces such a change: equal in seconds to the inductance of the circuit in henries divided by its resistance in ohms.
  • time discount — a discount allowed for payment of an invoice or bill before it falls due.
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
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