13-letter words containing s, o, f, t, c, r
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
- scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
- scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- significatory — serving to signify
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- south african — of southern Africa.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- stereo effect — the spatial effect given to sound that is achieved by using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.