13-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- sand painting — the ceremonial practice among Navaho and Pueblo Indians of creating symbolic designs on a flat surface with varicolored sand.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
- savings stamp — a stamp which can be bought (for example at a machine in a supermarket), saved, and then redeemed against the cost of goods later (for example at Christmas)
- scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
- scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
- script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
- script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
- script reader — playreader.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scriptwriting — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- 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.
- secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
- semi-parasite — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semiperimeter — half the perimeter of an object or shape
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
- sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
- septempartite — separated into seven sections.
- septentrional — northern; boreal
- septentriones — the seven stars of the Plough, the Great Bear
- septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
- serendipitist — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- serial rapist — someone who carries out a series of rapes
- sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
- sesquiterpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
- shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.