13-letter words containing s, c, a, l, r
- 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.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- 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.
- scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- seckel (pear) — a small, sweet, juicy, reddish-brown pear
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- serial-access — sequential-access.
- serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
- service clasp — clasp (def 4).
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- 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).
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- slipper chair — a small bedroom chair with a low seat.
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
- social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.