13-letter words containing n, i, m, y
- quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
- rahimyar khan — a city in E Pakistan.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- 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.
- 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.
- rhythmization — the act or process of rhythmizing something
- 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.
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- 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.
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- sentimentally — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- siege economy — an economy in which the export of capital is limited and import controls are imposed
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- specimen copy — a copy of a document regarded as typical of that type of document
- 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.
- spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
- 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.
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- 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.
- symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- 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
- systemization — systematize.
- taxonomically — the science or technique of classification.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- terminatively — in a finalizing manner
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- 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.
- time is money — don't waste time
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.