13-letter words containing s, y, r, t, i
- silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
- silky terrier — one of an Australian breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, blue coat with tan markings and erect ears, a topknot, and a docked tail.
- silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
- society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- 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.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- sports injury — wound sustained while playing sport
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- 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.
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- 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.
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- storm trysail — a small fore-and-aft sail, triangular or square, set on the mainmast of a sailing vessel in foul weather to help keep her head to the wind
- straight away — immediately
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- styrene resin — a transparent thermoplastic resin formed by polymerizing styrene.
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- 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.
- 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)
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- survivability — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure