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13-letter words containing i, s, o, c, y, l

  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • play politics — the science or art of political government.
  • polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
  • prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
  • punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
  • saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
  • 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.
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • syllogistical — relating to a syllogism
  • symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
  • 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.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • 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.
  • tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
  • tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • unconsciously — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
  • uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
  • unmaliciously — not in a malicious manner
  • unofficiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
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