13-letter words containing g, c, s
- rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- running costs — The running costs of a business are the amount of money that is regularly spent on things such as salaries, heating, lighting, and rent.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scanning disk — (in mechanical scanning) a disk with a line of holes spiraling in from its edge, rotated in front of a surface so as to expose a small segment as each hole passes before it for transmitting or reproducing a picture.
- scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
- scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- scenic design — the creation of scenery for television, film and stage
- schizogenesis — reproduction by fission.
- schizogenetic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- 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 outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scorchingness — the state or quality of being scorching
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- screen legend — a very famous and much admired film actor
- screen rights — the rights to make a film version of a book
- screenwriting — writing film scripts
- scriptwriting — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- second coming — the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- 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
- section eight — a military discharge for physical or mental unfitness as determined by an Army Regulation in effect from 1922 to 1944.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room