13-letter words containing s, t, e, p, c
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- suspectedness — the state of being suspected
- suspercollate — to hang
- sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- trichopterist — a student of, or expert in, trichopteran insects
- 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.
- type specimen — an individual organism from which the description of a species has been prepared.
- uncircumspect — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- uncompensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- undescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- unperfectness — the state or quality of being imperfect
- unpicturesque — not visually pleasing; not striking or beautiful
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unrespectable — not able to be respected
- unspectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- unsusceptible — not susceptible or impressionable; not possible or easy to influence; not vulnerable (to harm)
- unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- up shit creek — excrement; feces.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- yol computers — (company) A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
- zinc sulphate — a colourless soluble crystalline substance usually existing as the heptahydrate or monohydrate: used as a mordant, in preserving wood and skins, and in the electrodeposition of zinc. Formula: ZnSO4