13-letter words containing d, y, s, c
- 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
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
- spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
- syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
- 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.
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
- twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
- undiscernedly — in an undiscerned manner
- youth custody — (in Britain) a sentence of from four to eighteen months' detention passed on a person aged 15 to 21
- zygodactylous — Also, zygodactylous. (of a bird) having the toes of each foot arranged in pairs, with two toes in front and two behind.