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13-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r, e

  • 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 string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
  • security zone — an area controlled by security forces
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • 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.
  • sensitometric — of or relating to sensitometry
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • 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
  • sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sports centre — a place where people take part in sports
  • 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.
  • state control — government ownership
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stereognostic — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
  • telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
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