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

  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • rural science — the study and theory of agriculture, biology, ecology, and associated fields
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • 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).
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • selenium cell — a photovoltaic cell consisting of a thin strip of selenium placed between two metal electrodes.
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • 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-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • 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-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • 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
  • senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
  • 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.
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • single ticket — a one-way ticket.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • 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.
  • single-celled — having or containing a single cell
  • single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
  • singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
  • singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
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