13-letter words containing s, a, c, r, e
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- suspercollate — to hang
- sustentacular — supporting.
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- swamp cypress — bald cypress.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- tartare sauce — a mayonnaise dressing for fish and seafood, usually with chopped pickles, onions, olives, capers, and green herbs added.
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
- tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
- train service — provision of railway transport
- trans-oceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transcendence — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- transcendents — going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
- traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.