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13-letter words containing m, y, a

  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
  • somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
  • spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • 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.
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
  • stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
  • stimulability — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stomatoplasty — plastic surgery of the mouth or the cervix.
  • 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.
  • storm trysail — a small fore-and-aft sail, triangular or square, set on the mainmast of a sailing vessel in foul weather to help keep her head to the wind
  • summer savory — See under savory2 .
  • sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
  • supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
  • supernumerary — being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
  • symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
  • symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synophthalmia — cyclopia.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
  • systemization — systematize.
  • tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taxonomically — the science or technique of classification.
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