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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.
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