13-letter words containing s, t, y, m, i, e
- poliomyelitis — an acute viral disease, usually affecting children and young adults, caused by any of three polioviruses, characterized by inflammation of the motor neurons of the brain stem and spinal cord, and resulting in a motor paralysis, followed by muscular atrophy and often permanent deformities.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- resystematize — to systematize again
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schizomycetes — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- 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 firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- 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.
- semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- 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.
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- 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.
- spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
- 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.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- systemization — systematize.
- tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
- teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
- temerariously — in an audacious manner
- the himalayas — a vast mountain system in S Asia, extending 2400 km (1500 miles) from Kashmir (west) to Assam (east), between the valleys of the Rivers Indus and Brahmaputra: covers most of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the S edge of Tibet; the highest range in the world, with several peaks over 7500 m (25 000 ft). Highest peak: Mount Everest, 8848 m (29 028 ft)
- time is money — don't waste time
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- type specimen — an individual organism from which the description of a species has been prepared.
- unix system v — System V
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.