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13-letter words containing c, r, u, i, s, e

  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
  • semi-precious — Semi-precious stones are stones such as turquoises and amethysts that are used in jewellery but are less valuable than precious stones such as diamonds and rubies.
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
  • 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
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • 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.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
  • squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
  • stercorarious — stercoraceous
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • structuralize — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • 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.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcoriaceous — almost leathery
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • supercautious — very or extremely cautious
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
  • supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • superterrific — more than terrific
  • support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
  • 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.
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
  • trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
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