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13-letter words containing sy

  • psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
  • psychophysics — the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and resulting sensations and mental states.
  • psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
  • pussy-whipped — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
  • resynchronize — to synchronize again
  • resystematize — to systematize again
  • rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
  • school system — state education
  • semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
  • septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
  • somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
  • status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
  • stereo system — a system for recording, reproducing, or broadcasting sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
  • supersymmetry — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • syllogistical — relating to a syllogism
  • sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
  • symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
  • symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • 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.
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • symphysiotomy — a surgical procedure to facilitate labour
  • sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
  • 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.
  • synchronology — combined chronology
  • synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • 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
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