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13-letter words containing i, n, c, a, l

  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
  • suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • table licence — a licence authorizing the sale of alcoholic drinks with meals only
  • tactical unit — a group organized to function in combat as a self-contained unit.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • tantalic acid — an acid, HTaO 3 , that forms complex salts or tantalates.
  • tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
  • taxonomically — the science or technique of classification.
  • technological — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • telencephalic — the anterior section of the forebrain comprising the cerebrum and related structures.
  • tercentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
  • the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • tobaccanalian — a smoker
  • touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
  • touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
  • tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
  • traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
  • translocation — a change of location.
  • trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
  • triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
  • tricentennial — pertaining to 300 years or a period of 300 years.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • tropical zone — Torrid Zone
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • tussiculation — a hacking cough.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • ultraromantic — extremely romantic
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
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