13-letter words containing s, y, n, u
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- 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.
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substantially — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantively — a noun.
- substantivity — the quality or state of being substantive
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- 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
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
- sunny side up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
- sunny-side up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
- 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.
- supernumerary — being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
- superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- suspensefully — in a suspenseful manner
- synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- thousand days — the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).
- tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- transboundary — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- 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.
- traumatonasty — a nastic movement in response to an injury
- treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
- treasury note — a note or bill issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, receivable as legal tender for all debts except as otherwise expressly provided.
- trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
- trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
- tyrannosaurus — any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Tyrannosaurus, common in North America in upper Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
- unambiguously — plainly, clearly
- unambitiously — in an unambitious manner
- unassertively — in an unassertive manner
- unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
- unconsciously — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- understatedly — in an understated manner
- undeservingly — in an undeserving manner