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13-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e

  • 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.
  • supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
  • take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
  • tectosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
  • teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • tenaciousness — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
  • testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the conscious — that part of one's mental activity of which one is fully aware at any given time
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • 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-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
  • time constant — the time required for a changing quantity in a circuit, as voltage or current, to rise or fall approximately 0.632 of the difference between its old and new value after an impulse has been applied that induces such a change: equal in seconds to the inductance of the circuit in henries divided by its resistance in ohms.
  • time discount — a discount allowed for payment of an invoice or bill before it falls due.
  • 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 lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
  • to one's cost — If you know something to your cost, you know it because of an unpleasant experience that you have had.
  • to one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
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