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13-letter words containing p, o, n, c

  • second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
  • second person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • 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
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • space station — an orbiting manned structure that can be used for a variety of purposes, as to assemble or service satellites, refuel spacecraft, etc.
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • specimen copy — a copy of a document regarded as typical of that type of document
  • spectinomycin — an antibiotic drug, C 1 4 H 2 4 N 2 O 7 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces spectabilis, used in the treatment of susceptible gonorrhea.
  • speedcoding 3 — (language)   [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
  • splanchnology — the visceral system
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • sports centre — a place where people take part in sports
  • sportscasting — the reporting of a sports event by radio or television broadcast.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • standing crop — the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
  • strip cartoon — A strip cartoon is the same as a comic strip.
  • sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • 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.
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • tangoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by touch.
  • tapioca-plant — the cassava, Manihot esculenta.
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
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