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13-letter words containing f, r, s, c

  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
  • parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
  • perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
  • perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
  • perfect tense — grammar: have done, etc.
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • 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.
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