13-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e
- sports centre — a place where people take part in sports
- sports jacket — a jacket, often of textured wool or colorful pattern, with a collar, lapels, long sleeves, and buttons in the front, cut somewhat fuller than the jacket of a business suit, worn with slacks for informal occasions.
- 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.
- spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
- 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.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- staff section — section (def 10b).
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- stannic oxide — a white, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, SnO 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramic glazes and glass, and of polishing powders for metal, glass, and marble.
- state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
- state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- state control — government ownership
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- 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
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stercoraceous — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to dung or feces.
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- stereo effect — the spatial effect given to sound that is achieved by using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels
- stereognostic — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- 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.
- 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
- stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
- sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
- sticks&stones — (language, functional programming) A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
- stock footage — film containing stock shots.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- street hockey — road hockey.
- 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.
- 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.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollection — the act of collecting.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- success story — an account of the achievement of success, fortune, or fame by someone or some enterprise.
- successionist — a person who advocates a succession (of an office, throne, title etc), esp in ecclesiology, the apostolic succession
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- supercautious — very or extremely cautious