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13-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n

  • saint peter's — a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • salad spinner — a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl. The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord, and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
  • scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
  • sea transport — transport by ship over the sea
  • second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
  • second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
  • second person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
  • semipermanent — not quite permanent.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
  • sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • septentriones — the seven stars of the Plough, the Great Bear
  • serendipitist — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
  • sesquiterpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
  • severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
  • shakespearean — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
  • skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
  • sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
  • slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
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