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13-letter words containing s, c, a, n, t, l

  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
  • scandal sheet — a newspaper or magazine that emphasizes scandal or gossip.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • 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.
  • scintillating — animated; vivacious; effervescent: a scintillating personality.
  • scintillation — the act of scintillating; sparkling.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • 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, ).
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • 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
  • sectionalized — divided into sections
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
  • single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
  • 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).
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • social action — individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
  • socialization — a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
  • solicitations — instances of asking someone for money, help, support, or an opinion
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • standard cell — a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.
  • state control — government ownership
  • stratovolcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
  • sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
  • substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sunset clause — time limit written into a law
  • sustentacular — supporting.
  • sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
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