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13-letter words containing d, e, s, c, r

  • redescription — the act of redescribing
  • redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
  • roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
  • rose-coloured — of the colour rose; rosy
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
  • sacred bamboo — nandina.
  • sacred scarab — a beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
  • sacred thread — a cord worn by Hindus of the three upper castes as a sign of being twice-born or initiated into the Vedas.
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • 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
  • scatteredness — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • 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 record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • screen legend — a very famous and much admired film actor
  • screen reader — (application)   A text-to-speech system, intended for use by blind or low-vision users, that speaks the text content of a computer display.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
  • script reader — playreader.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
  • second person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking.
  • second reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts services and reads from the Scriptures.
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • second-degree — In the United States, second-degree is used to describe crimes that are considered to be less serious than first-degree crimes.
  • second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
  • second-source — of or pertaining to a cooperative arrangement whereby the products, as electronic parts, of one company are also manufactured by another company
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
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