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13-letter words containing i, n, t, r, s, c

  • redescription — the act of redescribing
  • redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
  • resting place — grave
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
  • retrospection — the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
  • right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • s corporation — An S corporation is a type of corporation in which the owners are taxed for any taxable income on their individual returns.
  • sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
  • sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
  • sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • 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
  • scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • 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 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.
  • second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
  • security zone — an area controlled by security forces
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
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