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13-letter words containing i, c, e, l, o

  • sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
  • scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semiochemical — a chemical substance produced by an animal and used in communications, such as a pheromone
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
  • slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
  • small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
  • smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
  • social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • special offer — bargain
  • 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.
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
  • state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
  • steering lock — an anti-theft device
  • stereological — of, relating to, stereology
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
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