13-letter words containing s, b, c
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- sub-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
- subappearance — a slight appearance
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcinctorium — an embroidered silk vestment resembling, but somewhat broader than, a maniple, worn by the pope on solemn occasions.
- subclavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- subcollection — the act of collecting.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subcommission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- subconcession — the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no concession to caution.
- subconscience — an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
- subcontiguous — almost touching; nearly contiguous.
- subcontinuous — almost but not quite continuous
- subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- subcoriaceous — almost leathery
- subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
- subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- subindication — the act or process of subindicating
- subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
- subject index — alphabetical contents list
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subspecialize — to specialize in a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- suburbicarian — being near the city of Rome.
- surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- symbolic link — (file format) (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.