17-letter words containing sc
- special schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
- spectrohelioscope — a spectroheliograph.
- spectromicroscope — a microscope with an attached spectroscope.
- spectroscopically — an optical device for producing and observing a spectrum of light or radiation from any source, consisting essentially of a slit through which the radiation passes, a collimating lens, and an Amici prism.
- subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
- tactile corpuscle — an oval sense organ made of flattened cells and encapsulated nerve endings, occurring in hairless skin, as the tips of the fingers and toes, and functioning as a touch receptor.
- telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
- television screen — the flat vertical surface in a television set on which pictures are shown
- the life sciences — sciences such as biology, botany, physiology, zoology which are concerned with the study of living organisms
- the silent screen — silent films, considered as a whole
- thread escutcheon — a raised metal rim around a keyhole.
- tip the scales at — to weigh (a specified amount)
- to settle a score — If you settle a score or settle an old score with someone, you take revenge on them for something they have done in the past.
- transcendentalism — transcendental character, thought, or language.
- transcendentalist — transcendental character, thought, or language.
- transcendentalize — to cause to become transcendent.
- triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
- turn of the screw — a short novel (1898) by Henry James.
- uncircumscribable — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- unconscientiously — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
- unselfconsciously — in an unselfconscious manner
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
- vocational school — a school offering instruction in one or more skilled or semiskilled trades or occupations.
- windscreen washer — a small nozzle on the bonnet of a motor vehicle, from which jets of water are squirted electronically onto the windscreen to help clean it