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13-letter words containing c, o, n, s, i, l

  • social action — individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • socialization — a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
  • solicitations — instances of asking someone for money, help, support, or an opinion
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • 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.
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • 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
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • 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.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
  • transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • translocation — a change of location.
  • tussiculation — a hacking cough.
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
  • unconsciously — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
  • uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
  • uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
  • unmaliciously — not in a malicious manner
  • unofficiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • vaccinologist — the science of vaccine development.
  • violoncellist — cellist.
  • vocationalism — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
  • vocationalist — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
  • volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
  • voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
  • windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
  • wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
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