13-letter words containing g, y, m, s
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- olympic games — international sports event
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- polysyllogism — an argument made up of a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each being a premise of the one following, until the last one.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- rising rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which is composed of one accented syllable preceded by one or more unaccented ones.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- 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.
- sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- sexagesimally — into sixtieths
- siege economy — an economy in which the export of capital is limited and import controls are imposed
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- solomon gundy — a dish of salted marinated herring in vinegar and spices
- 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.
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- 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.
- stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
- timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
- transmisogyny — discrimination or prejudice against transgender women.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
- unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
- vaginomycosis — a fungous infection of the vagina.
- yestermorning — yesterday morning.