13-letter words containing o, c, t, a, s, i
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- strip cartoon — A strip cartoon is the same as a comic strip.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- structuration — the act of giving structure to something
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subindication — the act or process of subindicating
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- supercautious — very or extremely cautious
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- syllogistical — relating to a syllogism
- symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- take occasion — to avail oneself of an opportunity (to do something)
- take stock in — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- tectosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- tenaciousness — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the ascension — the bodily ascent of Jesus into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: Acts 1:9
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- time constant — the time required for a changing quantity in a circuit, as voltage or current, to rise or fall approximately 0.632 of the difference between its old and new value after an impulse has been applied that induces such a change: equal in seconds to the inductance of the circuit in henries divided by its resistance in ohms.
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).