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

  • scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
  • scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • special offer — bargain
  • specrate_fp92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • 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.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
  • tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
  • trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
  • traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
  • unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
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