13-letter words containing s, t, r, i, c
- support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- tennis racket — long-handled bat used in tennis
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- 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
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
- 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
- tortoise-core — Archaeology. a late Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone core characteristic of the Levalloisian tradition of toolmaking, having a rounded top and flattish bottom and prepared in advance to permit the removal of a single ellipsoid flake with one blow from a stone hammer.
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- tourist court — motel.
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- tracking shot — dolly shot.
- tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
- tractarianism — the religious opinions and principles of the Oxford movement, especially in its early phase, given in a series of 90 papers called Tracts for the Times, published at Oxford, England, 1833–41.
- train service — provision of railway transport
- trans-oceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transactivate — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- transatlantic — crossing or reaching across the Atlantic: a transatlantic liner.
- transcaucasia — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- transcriptase — RNA polymerase.
- transcription — the act or process of transcribing.