13-letter words containing s, y, l, p
- squash player — a person who plays squash
- state of play — current situation
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- 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.
- stomatoplasty — plastic surgery of the mouth or the cervix.
- stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
- stormy petrel — the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- 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.
- sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- 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.
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superfluously — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
- superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- supersubtlety — the quality of being extremely subtle
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- suspensefully — in a suspenseful manner
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- syphilization — the act of syphilizing
- syphilophobia — the excessive fear of syphilis
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
- tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- transparently — having the property of transmitting rays of light through its substance so that bodies situated beyond or behind can be distinctly seen.
- transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
- tympanoplasty — reconstruction of the eardrum and the bones of the middle ear.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- unpleasurably — without pleasure, in an unpleasurable manner
- unpromisingly — in a manner that is not showing any promise of favourable development or future success
- unspiritually — in an unspiritual manner
- unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
- unsurpassably — in an unsurpassable manner; in a way that cannot be surpassed
- upon my soul! — an exclamation of surprise
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.