13-letter words containing s, e, n, t, i, c
- aschelminthes — a major grouping (formerly a phylum) of small-to-microscopic pseudocoelomate organisms, as the rotifers, nematodes, and gastrotriches, all of which are now classified as separate phyla.
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
- authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
- 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
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
- bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
- bits per inch — (unit) (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
- caltanissetta — a city in central Sicily: sulphur mines. Pop: 61 438 (2001)
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- candidateship — candidature
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
- castellations — Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches; battlements.
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- celestine iii — (Giacinto Bobone) died 1198, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1191–98.
- centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
- central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- ch'en tu-hsiu — 1879–1942, Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
- charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
- chastisements — severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.