13-letter words containing s, c, a, l, e
- neurovascular — of, relating to, or involving the nerves and blood vessels.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nicholasville — a town in central Kentucky.
- niçoise salad — salade niçoise
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- nominal scale — a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results
- non-episcopal — of or relating to a bishop: episcopal authority.
- non-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- non-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- nonadolescent — Not adolescent.
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nonconsensual — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
- nonconsumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- nonsensically — (of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense: A baby's babbling is appealingly nonsensical.
- nonspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
- nucleic acids — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
- nuisance call — an unsolicited telephone call such as a prank call or a call for telemarketing purposes
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- object clause — the clause that acts as the object of a verb
- object pascal — (language) An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
- obstacle race — a foot race in which the contestants are prevented in a specific way from covering the full course at top speed, as by having hurdles to jump, sacks enclosing the legs, or potatoes to pick up.
- obstetrically — (medicine) In terms of obstetrics.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- octagon scale — a scale used in laying out octagonal figures of various sizes.
- octosyllables — Plural form of octosyllable.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- olympic games — international sports event
- opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
- optical mouse — (hardware) Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
- oraculousness — the state of being oraculous
- orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
- orthosilicate — a silicate mineral
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- palisade cell — a columnar cell of palisade parenchyma.
- panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
- parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.