13-Letter Words Starting with S

Saccharify

""An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.""

A saccharimeter.

""A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisi\'91 is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula. Saccharomyces cerevisi\'91 is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.""

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

One with exaggerated respect for priests could become so strait-laced

In a sacrament manner.

Sacrificial

SACROSANCT Sacred; inviolable.

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Person in a painful relationship!

Painstaking (and giving) type might crack his cat as moods vary

Safecracking

Can Oasis guess about wiseness (wordplay)

Prurience

Holier-than-thou

Making a show of being morally superior

Spreading unction's aim, so unctuous

""SANSCULOTTE A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sansculottes. sansculottes.

SAPROGENIC

In a sarcastic manner.

Sarcophagus

Notwithstanding, is groups for pleasure

Seems Saturday's when such bits of parties give such pleasure

Scalariform

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

Scapegoatism

The act of scarifying.

Scatteration

Ding-a-lings

Gracie Allen's TV persona et al.

Flighty ones.

Stage workers

Scenographer

Scenography

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

Schematical

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Schistosity

Schizophrene

A severe mental illness

Mental disorder, split mind in Greek

Disorder of Chopin's hazier works

SCHIZOPHRENE

""SCHOLASTIC Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.""

Abelard's thing

New Catholics miss medieval sort of philosophy

Schoolfellow

Primly pedantic

People who teach fish experts (wordplay)

By whom one gets informed in form

Who may be in the classrooms, working (wordplay)

In-form professional (wordplay)

Her chocolates embarrassed young tutor

The young director

Schussboomer

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scintillant

Dazzling sign rehashed with lilac tint

Brilliant - dazzling

Brilliantly clever

A flash of light

Scintillator

Sclerenchyma

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

""Any of a class of generally insoluble proteins, such as collagen, found in skeletal and connective tissue. Also called albuminoid .""

Scrappiness

Scratchboard

Scrawniness

Reinsert screw (anagram)

Scrimshander

Scenarists

Scruffiness

Scrumptious

Like carved figures

Seasickness

Secessionism

Secessionist

Seclusive

Secobarbital

The state of being secondary.

Secretagogue

Status honored during the diagonal occasion, in April

The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

Sectarianism

SECTARIANIZE To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

Sectarianize

Sectionalism

Alluring quality

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

Of or pertaining to seismology.

Selectionist

Selective

Selectivity

As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.

""Astronomy the branch of astronomy that studies the physical characteristics of the moon. ; selenologist , ; selenological ,""

Like some firearms

Firearm came out with its aim suspect

CIVILIZED civilize

Like Gershwin's orchestral works

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Aware of a truck-trailer (wordplay)

Aware of a truck-trailer?

Partially aware of one's surroundings

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Inflected form of SYNTHETIC Inflected form of SYNTH a synthesizer

Inflected form of TONICALLY Inflected form of TONIC something that refreshes

Photography

He raises silkworms

Serological

Sexdecillion

SEXTUPLICATE

Sextuplicate

Sharecropper

SHARECROP

Shellcracker

Shortchanger

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Shuttlecock

Sickishness

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

Significance

In a significant manner.

Importance of indication providing one positive particle

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Silviculture

Sincereness

Sketchiness

Slouchiness

Sociability

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Of or involving both social and cultural factors.

Describing the interactions of communities and money

(used with a sing. verb) The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors.

Some robocalls

English word

Solifluction

SOMATOLOGIC

Somnifacient

Sophistical

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Noel and Cole, for example

In irregular bursts

In fits and starts

Specialness

Detailed description of requirements

Detailed design description

Detailed requirement of work to be done

Specificity

In a strikingly dramatic manner

In an ostentatious way

In impressive style

The office or quality of a spectator.

""A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 14 H 24 N 2 O 7 , obtained from a species of gram-negative bacteria (Streptomyces spectabilis) or produced synthetically and used especially in the treatment of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea.""

Spectrograph

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Spectrometer

A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.

Spectroscope

""SPECTROSCOPE An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.""

Specularity

Speculative

Speechwriter

Caves

Spermatocyte

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

SPIROCHETE

SPIROCHETE

Splenectomy

SPLENECTOMIZE

In a splenetical manner.

They may say, "Going, going, gone!"

Commentators without much to do these days

Sprachgefuhl

Attendant with historical records (five lost) for certain governments

Pathogenic bacteria

Starchiness

In the way of statistics.

Do they figure things out (wordplay)

Number-crunchers assist Titanic at sea

Figureheads (wordplay)

Staunchness

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

They present hurdles

Some horse races

Horse races

""Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.""

""STEREOGRAPH Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.""

The study of three-dimensional properties of objects or matter usually observed two-dimensionally.

Stereopticon

Stereoscopy

Conventionalised novel operatic style

Operatic style devised in keeping with stock character

Hackneyed

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stichomythia

Stichomythy

Stickhandler

The act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

""With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.""

Stockbreeder

Stockbroking

Stockjobbing

""The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.""

Stonecutting

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

Coats worn on waterways (wordplay)

Perhaps no army movement in them in asylums

Small quality potato skins for violent prisoners

How Victorians acted

According to plan

South pathetically clutching table's ends with finesse

""The study of rock strata, especially the distribution, deposition, and age of sedimentary rocks.""

Stratocracy

""Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.""

Sky-high (informal)

Unusually, orchestra pit's very high

Belonging to the upper air

Pl. stratovolcanos A volcano composed of alternating layers of lava and ash.

""Of, relating to, or caused by a streptococcus.""

STREPTOCOCCI

Bacterium causing sore throat etc

Genus of bacteria

Bacterium often causing infection

English word

Streptomycin

Stringcourse

STROMATOLITE

Technique for literary criticism

One studying patterns of thought, behaviour, etc

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.