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13-letter words containing f, s, y, t

  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
  • myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
  • mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • of many parts — having many different abilities
  • prefix syntax — prefix notation
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • 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.
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
  • safety lintel — an auxiliary lintel concealed behind a visible lintel, arch, etc.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-flattery — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-identify — identify (defs 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.
  • self-identity — the identity or consciousness of identity of a thing with itself.
  • self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • softly-softly — A softly-softly approach to something is cautious and patient and avoids direct action or force.
  • 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
  • storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • stuffed dummy — someone who says or does nothing and is generally inanimate and characterless
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • 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.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • tiffany glass — Favrile Glass.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • unjustifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
  • unsteadfastly — in an unsteadfast manner
  • venus flytrap — firewall machine
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
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