13-letter words containing n, y, c, t, i
- 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.
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- 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.
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- significatory — serving to signify
- 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.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- taxonomically — the science or technique of classification.
- 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.
- transmittancy — a measure of the extent to which a solution transmits radiation. It is equal to the ratio of the transmittance of the solution to the transmittance of a pure solvent of the same dimensions
- 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.
- un-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unpunctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- unselectively — in an unselective manner
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- urinary tract — the organs in the body that produce and excrete urine
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular