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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
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