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13-letter words containing c, r, a, d

  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scatteredness — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • 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, ).
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
  • screen reader — (application)   A text-to-speech system, intended for use by blind or low-vision users, that speaks the text content of a computer display.
  • script reader — playreader.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • 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 of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
  • second reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts services and reads from the Scriptures.
  • second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • sociodramatic — a method of group psychotherapy in which each patient assumes and dramatizes a variety of roles, usually focusing on problems and conflicts arising in group situations.
  • somar dumpacl — (tool)   A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spotted crake — a Eurasian rail, Porzana porzana, of swamps and marshes, having a buff speckled plumage and dark brown wings
  • standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
  • standard coin — a coin having value in bullion at least equal to its face value.
  • standard cost — a predetermined cost of material, labor, etc., based on specifications prepared from time-and-motion studies, accounting records, and the like.
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • stare decisis — the doctrine that rules or principles of law on which a court rested a previous decision are authoritative in all future cases in which the facts are substantially the same.
  • sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
  • sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
  • supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
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