13-letter words containing c, y, n, i, a
- pencil crayon — coloured pencil
- pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
- pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- petit larceny — petty larceny.
- phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physicianship — the position, function, or office of a physician.
- pianistically — in a manner or way that is pianistic
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- pontificality — a priestly role or office
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
- provinciality — provincial character.
- psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
- psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- quincuncially — In a quincuncial fashion.
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- 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.
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- significatory — serving to signify
- 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
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- 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.