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13-letter words containing s, c, a, l, e

  • saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
  • saddle-stitch — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • saleleaseback — leaseback.
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
  • scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scarlet gilia — skyrocket.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • scene-stealer — a performer in a play, motion picture, etc., who by charm, talent, or artifice, draws most of the audience's attention, often away from the leading performers.
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
  • school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
  • schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
  • scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
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