13-letter words containing l, i, s, c
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- 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.
- school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- schoolgirlish — like or characteristic of a schoolgirl
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
- scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
- scintillation — the act of scintillating; sparkling.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- 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.
- seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
- second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
- sectionalized — divided into sections
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- 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-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- 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-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- 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-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- 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-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
- semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.