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

  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • simware, inc. — (company)   The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • skip distance — the minimum distance along the earth's surface between the position of a short-wave transmitter and the region where its signal is received after one reflection from the ionosphere.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
  • sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
  • social action — individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • socialization — a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
  • solicitations — instances of asking someone for money, help, support, or an opinion
  • sonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • space heating — the heating of a limited area, as a room, by means of a heater (space heater) within the area.
  • space science — any of the sciences involved in space travel or the exploration of space, as space medicine.
  • space station — an orbiting manned structure that can be used for a variety of purposes, as to assemble or service satellites, refuel spacecraft, etc.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • special needs — learning difficulties
  • specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
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