13-letter words that end in t
- self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-reverent — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
- selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- semi-finalist — A semi-finalist is a player, athlete, or team that is competing in a semi-final.
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- senior moment — a brief lapse in memory or a moment of confusion, especially in an older person.
- sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
- serendipitist — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- serial rapist — someone who carries out a series of rapes
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- set at naught — to have disregard or scorn for; disdain
- seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- share account — a savings account in a credit union.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
- shelving unit — A shelving unit is a flexible display system which can be moved and adjusted to accommodate different product dimensions.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping list — a list made by a shopper of items or goods to be bought.
- short account — the account of a short seller.
- short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
- short-circuit — Electricity. to make (an appliance, switch, etc.) inoperable by establishing a short circuit in. to carry (a current) as a short circuit.
- shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
- silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- sindonologist — a student of sindonology
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single ticket — a one-way ticket.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- singles chart — a ranked chart of popular music (individual songs, not albums or collections) for a specific period of time
- 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
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- slimming diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- 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.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
- solar chariot — (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- south by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of south. Abbreviation: SbE.
- south by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of south. Abbreviation: SbW.
- southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
- sovereigntist — a supporter of sovereignty association