13-letter words containing c, r, y, s, t
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- 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.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- sarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
- 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.
- 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 firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- 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
- significatory — serving to signify
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- 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.
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- 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.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- 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.
- street hockey — road hockey.
- subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- success story — an account of the achievement of success, fortune, or fame by someone or some enterprise.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence