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13-letter words containing r, o, s, a, n, e

  • senior airman — a noncommissioned officer ranking between a staff sergeant and airman first class. Abbreviation: SrA.
  • senior master — a male teacher in a senior position
  • sensorineural — related to or affecting a sensory nerve or a sensory mechanism together with its neural circuitry.
  • senza sordino — a musical direction to remove or play without the mute or (on the piano) with the sustaining pedal pressed down
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
  • serialization — to publish in serial form.
  • serodiagnosis — a diagnosis involving tests on blood serum or other serous fluid of the body.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • share account — a savings account in a credit union.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shaving horse — a trestle for supporting and steadying a piece of work being shaved.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • sierra morena — a mountain range in SW Spain, between the Guadiana and Guadalquivir Rivers. Highest peak: Estrella, 1299 m (4262 ft)
  • silver salmon — coho salmon.
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • snowshoe hare — a large-footed North American hare, Lepus americanus, that is white in winter and dark brown in summer.
  • soccer season — the part of each year during which soccer is usually played
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • sonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • south-eastern — South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spotter plane — an aircraft used in observing enemy movements or the accuracy of fire on a target
  • spread option — spread (def 25b).
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • standard rose — a rose which has a long stem
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