13-letter words containing s, a, y, o, n
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- collisionally — in the manner of a collision or collisions
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commissionary — Of, relating to, or conferring a commission.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- concessionary — A concessionary price is a special price which is lower than the normal one and which is often given to old people, students, and the unemployed.
- conchylaceous — Of or relating to shells; resembling a shell.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
- consanguinity — relationship by blood; kinship
- considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
- consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
- constellatory — Astronomy. any of various groups of stars to which definite names have been given, as Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Boötes, Cancer, Orion. the section of the heavens occupied by such a group.
- constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contrastingly — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contrastively — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- controversary — (obsolete) controversial.
- convalescency — convalescence
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- core analysis — Core analysis is the process of studying a sample of rock in a laboratory.
- cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
- cost analysis — an economic evaluation
- crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
- cryptoanalyst — Alternative form of cryptanalyst.
- cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
- cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
- cytochalasins — Plural form of cytochalasin.
- cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- dehydrogenase — an enzyme, such as any of the respiratory enzymes, that activates oxidation-reduction reactions by transferring hydrogen from substrate to acceptor
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- digressionary — Serving as a digression.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- discretionary — subject or left to one's own discretion.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disordinately — in a manner that lacks order
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- donkey's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
- dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
- dysrationalia — The inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.