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13-letter words containing s, u, o, l, c

  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • somar dumpacl — (tool)   A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
  • stalactitious — containing stalactites
  • stratocumulus — a cloud of a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • suicidologist — someone who studies suicidology
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • suspercollate — to hang
  • synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
  • thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
  • to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
  • tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
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