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

  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • 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.
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • 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.
  • 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
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • 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.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • 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
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
  • unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
  • unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
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