13-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r, l
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- republication — publication anew.
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
- rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- 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, ).
- selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- 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
- state control — government ownership
- 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.
- stock control — Stock control is the activity of making sure that a company always has exactly the right amount of goods available to sell.
- stratovolcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
- teleconverter — a person or thing that converts.
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- translocation — a change of location.
- triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
- tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- ultraromantic — extremely romantic
- ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.