13-letter words containing s, e, t, c, r, u
- spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
- squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
- stercoraceous — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to dung or feces.
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
- street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
- streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- streptococcus — any of several spherical or oval bacteria of the genus Streptococcus, occurring in pairs or chains, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans, causing scarlet fever, tonsillitis, etc.
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- structuralize — to form into or make part of a structure.
- structureless — without structure, organization, or arrangement; formless.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
- success story — an account of the achievement of success, fortune, or fame by someone or some enterprise.
- suffrutescent — partially or slightly woody; subshrubby.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- super-culture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- supercautious — very or extremely cautious
- supercomputer — a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications.
- supercritical — extremely critical.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superparticle — (in supersymmetry theory) a theoretical particle that is a partner to an observed particle, having the same mass but a different spin
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- superterrific — more than terrific
- support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
- supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- suspercollate — to hang
- sustentacular — supporting.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- tartare sauce — a mayonnaise dressing for fish and seafood, usually with chopped pickles, onions, olives, capers, and green herbs added.
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
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- thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
- tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- trichopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Trichoptera, comprising the caddisflies.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.