13-letter words containing t, e, n, y, s
- spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
- 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.
- stanley falls — series of seven cataracts of the upper Congo River, just south of Kisangani
- stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steady-handed — having steady hands; having self-control; calm.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- stylelessness — the quality or state of being styleless
- styrene resin — a transparent thermoplastic resin formed by polymerizing styrene.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substantively — a noun.
- 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.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
- synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- syrian desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia, SE Syria, W Iraq, and NE Jordan. About 125,000 sq. mi. (323,750 sq. km).
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- 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.
- teensy-weensy — tiny; small.
- tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
- 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 necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
- the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
- thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
- time is money — don't waste time
- tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.