13-letter words containing s, m, a, c
- stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
- stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- stomach tooth — a lower canine milk tooth of infants.
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- stratocumulus — a cloud of a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
- structuralism — any theory that embodies structural principles.
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- suprachiasmic — relating to the area in the hypothalamus that regulates the biological clock
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- swamp cypress — bald cypress.
- sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- t's & c’s — terms and conditions
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- the-alchemist — a comedy (1610) by Ben Jonson.
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- time constant — the time required for a changing quantity in a circuit, as voltage or current, to rise or fall approximately 0.632 of the difference between its old and new value after an impulse has been applied that induces such a change: equal in seconds to the inductance of the circuit in henries divided by its resistance in ohms.
- tractarianism — the religious opinions and principles of the Oxford movement, especially in its early phase, given in a series of 90 papers called Tracts for the Times, published at Oxford, England, 1833–41.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.