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13-letter words containing a, c, e, y

  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • seismic array — a system of linked seismographs arranged in a regular geometric pattern to increase sensitivity to earthquake detection
  • selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
  • soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
  • squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
  • tertiary care — the aspect of in-patient care dealing with illnesses or conditions requiring specialized techniques, as coronary artery bypass surgery, renal hemodialysis, and treatment of severe burns.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • the archenemy — the devil
  • the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • theatricality — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
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