13-letter words containing c, o, n, e, l, s
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- 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.
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- 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 fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- sectionalized — divided into sections
- selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
- selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
- self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.