13-letter words containing n, y, s, u, t
- pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
- questioningly — In a questioning manner.
- ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
- running story — a story continued in subsequent issues of a newspaper or magazine; serial.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
- saturnalianly — in a saturnalian or dissolute manner
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- 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.
- sententiously — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
- sequentiality — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
- situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sports injury — wound sustained while playing sport
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substantially — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantively — a noun.
- substantivity — the quality or state of being substantive
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- thousand days — the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).
- tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- transboundary — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- traumatonasty — a nastic movement in response to an injury
- treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
- treasury note — a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.
- trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
- trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
- tyrannosaurus — any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Tyrannosaurus, common in North America in upper Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)