13-letter words containing c, r, o, s, f
- scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- 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.
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- second of arc — second2 (def 4).
- self-coloured — of one color.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
- 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.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- significatory — serving to signify
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- 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
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- 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
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- 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.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.