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13-letter words containing r, e, c, l

  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scene-stealer — a performer in a play, motion picture, etc., who by charm, talent, or artifice, draws most of the audience's attention, often away from the leading performers.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
  • school record — the information that is kept about a child at school, including biographical information and exam results
  • school report — written assessment of school pupil
  • schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
  • sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
  • scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
  • 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.
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • screen legend — a very famous and much admired film actor
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • sculpturesque — suggesting sculpture: the sculpturesque beauty of her face.
  • seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • 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.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-centered — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • 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-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
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