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13-letter words containing c, o, d, n, s

  • 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
  • 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.
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • second advent — Second Coming.
  • 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 banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
  • second coming — the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.
  • second cousin — a child of a first cousin of one's parent. Compare cousin (def 1).
  • second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
  • second estate — the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the lords temporal in England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
  • second person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking.
  • second reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts services and reads from the Scriptures.
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • second-degree — In the United States, second-degree is used to describe crimes that are considered to be less serious than first-degree crimes.
  • second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
  • second-source — of or pertaining to a cooperative arrangement whereby the products, as electronic parts, of one company are also manufactured by another company
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • semidominance — incomplete dominance.
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • sex addiction — an addiction to sexual activity
  • sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • sigmoid colon — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
  • speedcoding 3 — (language)   [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • standard coin — a coin having value in bullion at least equal to its face value.
  • standard cost — a predetermined cost of material, labor, etc., based on specifications prepared from time-and-motion studies, accounting records, and the like.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
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