13-letter words containing s, c, a, p
- crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptanalysis — the study of codes and ciphers; cryptography
- cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
- cryptoanalyst — Alternative form of cryptanalyst.
- cryptoclastic — (of minerals and rocks) composed of microscopic fragments
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
- cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decapitations — Plural form of decapitation.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- deep-sea core — an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- dictatorships — Plural form of dictatorship.
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
- discapacitate — to incapacitate (a person)
- disceptatious — disputable
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discographies — Plural form of discography.
- discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disk capacity — the maximum number of bytes that can be held on a disk
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- dispatch case — attaché case.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dodecaphonist — a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
- ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electroplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroplate.
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.