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

  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • 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.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • 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.
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • special needs — learning difficulties
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • spice islands — the Moluccas
  • standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • 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.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tantalic acid — an acid, HTaO 3 , that forms complex salts or tantalates.
  • traction load — the solid material that is carried along the bed of a river
  • trade balance — balance of trade.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • unaccelerated — to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc., in: to accelerate economic growth.
  • unarticulated — not articulated
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • uncapitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
  • unchlorinated — not chlorinated; not treated with chlorine
  • uncommendable — not able to be commended; unworthy of commendation; reprehensible
  • uncommendably — in an uncommendable manner
  • uncomplicated — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • unconditional — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
  • under a cloud — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
  • underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
  • undescendable — unable to be descended or walked upon
  • undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • undialectical — not dialectical; not resolving views; dogmatic
  • undirectional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • undiscussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • unfacilitated — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
  • unideological — not having, belonging to, or relating to any particular ideology or belief system
  • unmedicinable — not able to be treated with medicine
  • unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
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