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13-letter words containing c, r, i, p, e, n

  • repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
  • resting place — grave
  • retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
  • retrospection — the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
  • second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • 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.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
  • 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.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • 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
  • 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
  • tin parachute — an employment agreement guaranteeing a worker compensation, especially in the form of bonuses and benefits, in the event of dismissal as a result of a merger or takeover.
  • to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
  • tracing paper — a thin, transparent paper for making tracings.
  • transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
  • tropic-cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • truchet point — (unit, text)   An obsolete variant of the point, equal to 0.188 mm.
  • turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
  • unappreciable — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
  • unappreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • uncircumspect — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
  • uncompromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
  • uncooperating — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • uncooperative — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • undepreciated — to reduce the purchasing value of (money).
  • under-packing — the act or work of a person or thing that packs.
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