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

  • sarcodinians' — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • 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.
  • scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
  • scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • scintillation — the act of scintillating; sparkling.
  • scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
  • scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
  • scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • 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.
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • 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.
  • season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
  • semidominance — incomplete dominance.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sendmail inc. — (company)   The company, announced in November 1997 and launched in March 1998, created by Eric Allman, the original author of Sendmail. Allman is Chief Technology Officer, Greg Olson is President and CEO. Sendmail Inc. will sell commercial upgrades, service and support to Internet Service Providers and corporations running critical e-mail applications, while still continuing freeware development. Allman said that he devoted the fist six months of the life of Sendmail Inc. to finalising the freeware release. A commercial version was due in summer 1998, at around $1000 per server. The company is expected to reach $40m annual sales within three years. Funding is in the region of $1.25m. Address: Emeryville, California, USA.
  • seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
  • serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
  • sex addiction — an addiction to sexual activity
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
  • shaving stick — a piece of shaving foam moulded into a slender shape and held in a slender container for ease of application to the face when removing hair with a razor
  • shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
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