13-letter words containing s, a, n, c, r, i
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
- sao francisco — a river flowing NE and E through E Brazil into the Atlantic. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- sarcodinians' — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
- scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
- scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
- sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- 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.
- side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
- significatory — serving to signify
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
- 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.
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.