13-letter words containing r, e, c, l
- semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- senior school — a school for pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18
- serial-access — sequential-access.
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver screen — motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
- single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- singlesticker — a vessel, especially a sloop or cutter, having one mast.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
- social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- 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.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- 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.
- spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
- spell checker — a computer program for checking the spelling of words in an electronic document.
- spell-checker — A spell-checker is a special program on a computer which you can use to check whether something you have written contains any spelling mistakes.
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- 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.
- spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
- standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
- state control — government ownership