13-letter words containing c, o, l, e, s
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- 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.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
- state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- state control — government ownership
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subcollection — the act of collecting.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- 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
- summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
- 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.
- supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
- supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- suspercollate — to hang
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- 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.
- tectosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- 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