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13-letter words containing s, t, a, r, c, l

  • discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
  • discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
  • distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
  • dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
  • easter candle — a tall candle, symbolizing Christ, that is sometimes blessed and placed on the gospel side of an altar on Holy Saturday and kept burning until Ascension Day.
  • ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
  • electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
  • electroplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroplate.
  • electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
  • eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
  • excrescential — Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
  • extra-special — particular; exceptional
  • extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
  • extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
  • extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
  • extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
  • fat electrons — (electronics, humour)   Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • gastric ulcer — a peptic ulcer located in the stomach's inner wall, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice on the mucous membrane.
  • gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
  • general costs — the general expenses of running a business
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • glass curtain — a transparent or translucent curtain covering the interior of a window opening.
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
  • hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
  • hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
  • hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
  • ideal crystal — a crystal in which there are no defects or impurities
  • imperialistic — the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
  • inconstruable — unable to be construed
  • inscriptional — Of or pertaining to inscription.
  • instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
  • interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
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