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13-letter words containing s, y, c, o, i

  • sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
  • sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
  • sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
  • somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
  • specimen copy — a copy of a document regarded as typical of that type of document
  • 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.
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • syllogistical — relating to a syllogism
  • symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
  • symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
  • synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • 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
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
  • unconsciously — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
  • uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
  • unmaliciously — not in a malicious manner
  • unofficiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • vaginomycosis — a fungous infection of the vagina.
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
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