13-letter words containing t, a, r, n, i, s
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- saint peter's — a basilica in Vatican City: dome designed by Michelangelo.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- saint-laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
- saint-nazaire — a seaport in W France, on the Loire estuary.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- sanitarianism — the study of sanitation
- sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
- sanitary ware — plumbing fixtures, as sinks or toilet bowls, made of ceramic material or enameled metal.
- santa clarita — city in SW Calif., near Los Angeles: pop. 151,000
- sarcasticness — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
- saturnalianly — in a saturnalian or dissolute manner
- savings ratio — the ratio of personal savings to disposable income, esp using the difference between national figures for disposable income and consumer spending as a measure of savings
- scan register — (electronics, testing) A digital logic circuit which can act either as a flip-flop or as a serial shift register and which is used to form a scan path for testing. The most common design is a multiplexed flip-flop: The other common design is level-sensitive scan design (LSSD).
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
- scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
- scene painter — a person who paints scenery in a theatre
- sciatic nerve — either of a pair of nerves, the largest in the body, that originate in the sacral plexus of the lower back and extend down the buttocks to the back of the knees, where they divide into other nerves: the sciatic nerve and its branches innervate large areas of the pelvis, leg, and foot.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- scintiscanner — a device that records the distribution and intensity of an internally administered radiopharmaceutical, producing a scintigram.
- scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
- sedentariness — characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
- segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-starting — starter (def 3).
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- senior master — a male teacher in a senior position
- septentrional — northern; boreal
- sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- serialization — to publish in serial form.
- serving hatch — a small hatch or opening in a kitchen wall used to serve food through to an adjoining room
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- shooting star — meteor (def 1b).
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building