13-letter words containing s, c, a, l, r
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- transcultural — across all cultures of the world
- translocation — a change of location.
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trucial coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- ultracautious — extremely or excessively cautious
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
- unrespectable — not able to be respected
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- upperclassman — a junior or senior in a secondary school or college.
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.