13-letter words containing n, i, c, e, t, y
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
- pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- petit larceny — petty larceny.
- phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- 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).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
- psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
- psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
- psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
- 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.
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- spectinomycin — an antibiotic drug, C 1 4 H 2 4 N 2 O 7 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces spectabilis, used in the treatment of susceptible gonorrhea.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
- tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
- type specimen — an individual organism from which the description of a species has been prepared.
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unselectively — in an unselective manner