13-letter words containing s, y, n, o, t
- sensationally — producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc., especially by exaggerated, superficial, or lurid elements: a sensational novel.
- sententiously — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
- shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- significatory — serving to signify
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
- 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.
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- sports injury — wound sustained while playing sport
- spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
- stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
- stony-hearted — hardhearted.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- 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.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
- synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- syphilization — the act of syphilizing
- systemization — systematize.
- szent-gyorgyi — Albert [al-bert;; Hungarian ol-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; Hungarian ˈɒl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.
- tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
- tenosynovitis — inflammation of a tendon sheath, as from trauma, repeated strain, or systemic disease.
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thousand days — the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).
- thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
- thysanopteron — thysanopteran.