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13-letter words containing t, y, s, i, e

  • 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.
  • spy satellite — an orbiting satellite used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from space
  • squeezability — the quality of being capable of, or suitable for, being squeezed
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • 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.
  • styrene resin — a transparent thermoplastic resin formed by polymerizing styrene.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • substantively — a noun.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • 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.
  • tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
  • taylor series — an approximation of a given function f at a particular point x, in terms of values of the function and its derivatives at a neighboring point x 0 , by a power series in which the terms are given by f (n) (x 0) (x−x 0) n/n !, where f (n) (x 0) is the derivative of order n evaluated at point x 0 .
  • teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
  • tenosynovitis — inflammation of a tendon sheath, as from trauma, repeated strain, or systemic disease.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • the himalayas — a vast mountain system in S Asia, extending 2400 km (1500 miles) from Kashmir (west) to Assam (east), between the valleys of the Rivers Indus and Brahmaputra: covers most of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the S edge of Tibet; the highest range in the world, with several peaks over 7500 m (25 000 ft). Highest peak: Mount Everest, 8848 m (29 028 ft)
  • the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • 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.
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