13-letter words containing s, y, n, c, l
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- significantly — important; of consequence.
- silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
- squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- 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.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- 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.
- synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
- synchronology — combined chronology
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- 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.
- syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- unconsciously — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- undiscernedly — in an undiscerned manner
- unexclusively — in an unexclusive manner
- unmaliciously — not in a malicious manner
- unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
- unofficiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- unselectively — in an unselective manner
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- vinyl plastic — any of various plastics made from polymerized vinyl compounds or copolymers of vinyl and other resins, used in various molded or extruded products, coatings, adhesives, sizes, etc.