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13-letter words containing s, p, e, c, m

  • psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • semi-precious — Semi-precious stones are stones such as turquoises and amethysts that are used in jewellery but are less valuable than precious stones such as diamonds and rubies.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semiempirical — partly empirical
  • semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
  • specimen copy — a copy of a document regarded as typical of that type of document
  • specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
  • spectinomycin — an antibiotic drug, C 1 4 H 2 4 N 2 O 7 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces spectabilis, used in the treatment of susceptible gonorrhea.
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supercomputer — a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
  • supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
  • swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
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