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13-letter words containing p, e, o, l, s, c

  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pyrocellulose — cordite.
  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • school report — written assessment of school pupil
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • 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.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • 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-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
  • social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
  • solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
  • 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.
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
  • well-composed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
  • world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
  • yol computers — (company)   A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
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