13-letter words containing c, y, s, t, i
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- 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.
- sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- sarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schizomycetes — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
- 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.
- 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
- selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- significatory — serving to signify
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
- somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- spectinomycin — an antibiotic drug, C 1 4 H 2 4 N 2 O 7 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces spectabilis, used in the treatment of susceptible gonorrhea.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- 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.
- statistically — of, pertaining to, consisting of, or based on statistics.
- 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.
- sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
- stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
- 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.
- stylistically — of or relating to style.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.