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13-letter words containing o, e, s, t, r, i

  • septentriones — the seven stars of the Plough, the Great Bear
  • sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
  • serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • serialization — to publish in serial form.
  • service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • sheet erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • ship's stores — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
  • ship-to-shore — operating between a ship and the shore: a ship-to-shore radio.
  • short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
  • short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • short-termism — If you accuse people of short-termism, you mean that they make decisions that produce benefits now or soon, rather than making better decisions that will produce benefits in the future.
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
  • sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • somersetshire — a county in SW England. 1335 sq. mi. (3455 sq. km).
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association
  • soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
  • spectroscopic — an optical device for producing and observing a spectrum of light or radiation from any source, consisting essentially of a slit through which the radiation passes, a collimating lens, and an Amici prism.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
  • spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
  • spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
  • spiritousness — the state of being spiritous
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