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13-letter words containing y, i, n

  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • 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
  • spondylolysis — the destruction of the vertebra
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • sports injury — wound sustained while playing sport
  • 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.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • 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.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
  • 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.
  • stentoriously — stentorian.
  • 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.
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
  • styrene resin — a transparent thermoplastic resin formed by polymerizing styrene.
  • 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.
  • sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
  • 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.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
  • synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • synophthalmia — cyclopia.
  • syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
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