13-letter words containing d, i, s, c, p
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
- 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.
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
- sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
- skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
- special needs — learning difficulties
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
- 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.
- speedcoding 3 — (language) [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spice islands — the Moluccas
- spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
- 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.
- standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
- standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
- subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
- 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.
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- undisciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unspecialized — not specialized
- wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
- wind scorpion — sun spider.