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13-letter words containing c, s, f

  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sao francisco — a river flowing NE and E through E Brazil into the Atlantic. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • 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
  • scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • 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.
  • school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
  • 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.
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-centered — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
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