13-letter words containing so
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- prosopagnosia — an inability to recognize faces
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- pseudisodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones having the same length, laid in courses of different heights.
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- queen consort — the wife of a ruling king.
- raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
- raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- read a lesson — to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner
- real soon now — (jargon, humour) (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- redissolution — the act of redissolving
- remote sensor — any instrument, such as a radar device or camera, that scans the earth or another planet from space in order to collect data about some aspect of it
- resource fork — Macintosh file system
- rewriteperson — rewriteman.
- ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
- royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
- sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
- sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
- scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
- scoinson arch — sconcheon arch.
- season ticket — a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.
- seasonability — fact of being seasonable
- second person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking.
- second-source — of or pertaining to a cooperative arrangement whereby the products, as electronic parts, of one company are also manufactured by another company
- self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sensorineural — related to or affecting a sensory nerve or a sensory mechanism together with its neural circuitry.
- senza sordino — a musical direction to remove or play without the mute or (on the piano) with the sustaining pedal pressed down
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- skiing resort — a place which provides accommodation and facilities for skiing such as skiing trails, slopes, etc, esp for people who go there to take skiing holidays
- slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
- soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
- soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
- soccer season — the part of each year during which soccer is usually played
- social action — individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
- social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
- social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.