13-letter words containing s, e, c, r
- antiparticles — Plural form of antiparticle.
- antirecession — acting against recession
- antiresonance — a phenomenon in an electric, acoustic, or other such system in which the impedance is tending to infinity.
- antisymmetric — (of a relation) never holding between a pair of arguments x and y when it holds between y and x except when x = y, as "…is no younger than…"
- appeals court — An appeals court is the same as an appellate court.
- apperceptions — Plural form of apperception.
- appreciations — Plural form of appreciation.
- appurtenances — accessories or equipment
- archaeologist — a specialist in archaeology, the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, etc.
- archaic smile — a conventional representation of the mouth characterized by slightly upturned corners of the lips, found especially on Greek sculpture produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
- archduchesses — Plural form of archduchess.
- archeologists — archaeology.
- archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.
- archipelagoes — Plural form of archipelago.
- architectures — Plural form of architecture.
- arcus senilis — an opaque circle around the cornea of the eye, often seen in elderly people
- arias sanchez — Oscar. born 1940, Costa Rican statesman; president (1986–90, 2006–2010); Nobel peace prize 1987
- aristocracies — Plural form of aristocracy.
- aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
- armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
- armored scale — any of a family (Diaspididae) of scale insects characterized by a hard, waxy secretion that covers the body: many armored scales are serious pests of trees and shrubs
- arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
- arthroscopies — Plural form of arthroscopy.
- arundinaceous — resembling a reed
- ascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
- ascertainment — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
- astroparticle — (astrophysics) A subatomic particle of cosmic origin.
- atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- atroceruleous — a deep blue-black color.
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- auto-destruct — self-destruct.
- autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
- baby snatcher — a person who steals a baby from its pram
- bachelor seal — a young male seal, esp a fur seal, that has not yet mated
- bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
- back pressure — the pressure that opposes the motion of a piston on its exhaust stroke in an internal-combustion engine
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- backscratcher — an implement with a long handle, used for scratching one's back
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
- bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
- bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
- balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
- bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
- barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face