13-letter words containing l, a, y, e
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- substantively — a noun.
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
- sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- 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.
- 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.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.