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13-letter words containing c, o, r, p

  • 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.
  • spruce grouse — a grouse, Canachites canadensis, of coniferous forests of northern North America, that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • 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.
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • streptococcus — any of several spherical or oval bacteria of the genus Streptococcus, occurring in pairs or chains, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans, causing scarlet fever, tonsillitis, etc.
  • strip cartoon — A strip cartoon is the same as a comic strip.
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • supercautious — very or extremely cautious
  • 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.
  • supercomputer — a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
  • supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
  • supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
  • tape recorder — an electrical device for recording or playing back sound, video, or data on magnetic tape.
  • 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
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • 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-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • theriomorphic — (of deities) thought of or represented as having the form of beasts.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
  • to keep track — If you keep track of a situation or a person, you make sure that you have the newest and most accurate information about them all the time.
  • to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • tortilla chip — Tortilla chips are thick crisps made from corn which are often served with dips such as salsa.
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • transcription — the act or process of transcribing.
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • trichopterist — a student of, or expert in, trichopteran insects
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