13-letter words containing s, c, o, f, i, e
- second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
- slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- special offer — bargain
- specification — the act of specifying.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- staff section — section (def 10b).
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- undiscomfited — not discomfited; at ease
- versification — the act of versifying.