13-letter words containing s, c, a, r, f, e
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- safari jacket — bush jacket.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- second of arc — second2 (def 4).