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13-letter words containing r, e, s, i, n, y

  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
  • sanitary ware — plumbing fixtures, as sinks or toilet bowls, made of ceramic material or enameled metal.
  • 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
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • 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.
  • spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • 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.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • 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.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • stentoriously — stentorian.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • styrene resin — a transparent thermoplastic resin formed by polymerizing styrene.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • syrian desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia, SE Syria, W Iraq, and NE Jordan. About 125,000 sq. mi. (323,750 sq. km).
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • szent-gyorgyi — Albert [al-bert;; Hungarian ol-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; Hungarian ˈɒl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.
  • tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
  • unassertively — in an unassertive manner
  • undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
  • undiscernedly — in an undiscerned manner
  • undisturbedly — in an undisturbed manner
  • unintrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
  • unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • unresistingly — in an unresisting or unopposing manner
  • unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • unsymmetrized — not made symmetrical; not symmetrized
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