13-letter words containing e, y, l, s
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
- six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched
- skittle alley — a place where the game of skittles is played
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
- sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
- solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- southeasterly — coming from the south east
- southwesterly — coming from the south west
- space biology — exobiology.
- 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.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
- spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
- spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spy satellite — an orbiting satellite used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from space
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squash player — a person who plays squash
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- squeezability — the quality of being capable of, or suitable for, being squeezed
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
- stanley falls — series of seven cataracts of the upper Congo River, just south of Kisangani
- stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
- state of play — current situation
- steller's jay — a common jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, of western North America, having blackish-brown and dusky-blue plumage.
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- 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.
- stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
- stormy petrel — the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.