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13-letter words containing e, a, s, y, m, t

  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • 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.
  • semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • sentimentally — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • 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.
  • spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
  • systemization — systematize.
  • tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
  • the himalayas — a vast mountain system in S Asia, extending 2400 km (1500 miles) from Kashmir (west) to Assam (east), between the valleys of the Rivers Indus and Brahmaputra: covers most of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the S edge of Tibet; the highest range in the world, with several peaks over 7500 m (25 000 ft). Highest peak: Mount Everest, 8848 m (29 028 ft)
  • 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.
  • valley stream — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
  • weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
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