13-Letter Words Starting with S

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

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

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Person in a painful relationship!

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

SAILBOARDING sailboard

Plural or third person singular

Sandpainting

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Scratchboard

Scrimshander

The state of being secondary.

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

Deposit that's tied into means testing

Little woman in new maisonnette settling down

Process of depositing tainted monies corruptly

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

Seditious

Alluring quality

Semiaridity

CIVILIZED civilize

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Semidiameter

LEGENDARY Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.

""SEDENTARY Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. as, a sedentary man.""

Serendipity

Occurring by happy chance

Able to make lucky discoveries

Chance used to inspire anagrams

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Serriedness

Sexdecillion

SEXTUPLICATE

Shadowiness

Sheepherding

She twice pressed around women like Chloe

Mary was one of them - she repeatedly pressed for change

Shipbuilding

Sporting attractions on cruise liners

Shuttlecock

Face getting divorced? Hilarious!

Very funny team breaking up

Extremely amusing team parting company

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

SKATEBOARDER skateboard

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

Skulduggery

Slaveholding

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Slenderness

Minor investors' allotments (wordplay)

Made sing behind tiny old fortress in little farms

SNOWBOARDING snowboard

Softhearted

Abstract noun (-ity)

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Preventing transmission of noise

That'll keep things quiet all over the house at last

""A southeastward direction, point, or region.""

Southernwood

""A southwestward direction, point, or region.""

In irregular bursts

In fits and starts

SPEEDBOATING speedboat

Spermatozoid

Spinsterhood

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Magnificent, impressive

Rather wonderful

Brilliant spies flounder after ill-treatment

Plural or third person singular

Spondylitis

A. The act of spreading.

Squalidness

Standardbred

All the same, that's making it

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

By way of being reserved

Standpattism

Firm unwavering quality

Stability of farm on wild headland

Resolute attitude

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stepdaughter

Stereograph

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stickhandler

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

Stiltedness

They are paid to sit about and write records

Magistrates getting gratuity in money on the records

Stockbreeder

Storyboard

Straightbred

Rulers

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

How Victorians acted

They'll take your breath away

Stridulation

Studiedness

Stuntedness

Subacidness

ADOLESCENT Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

CLASSIFIED classify

Player on bench that's got diminished is farmed out elsewhere

Subdebutante

A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau. Bureau.

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

Past tense or past participle

Subindustry

SUBINFEUDATE

Subinfeudate

SUBJECTIVISE

SUBJECTIVIZE

MANDIBULAR Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.

Subordinate

ORDINATING ordinate

Inferiority of position or rank

Bending to authority, playing on tour is a bind

""Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction. as, a subordinative conjunction.""

Subordinator

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Confirmed

Sulfadiazine

Wonder drug

Summersault

Superabound

Excessive in quantity

More than sufficient

Excessive in quality

""The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.""

Past it - pensioned off

A1 to the south, Aunt Edna rambles past it

Great girl, you hear, with a boy that's passe

A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.

Powerful particle accelerator

Superconduct

English word

SUPERELEVATE

SUPERFLUID

Superharden

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

Superinfect

Superintend

SUPERORDINATE

SUPEROVULATE

Superstardom

Surrejoinder

Skill at fencing

Skill with a blade

Pl. synarthrodiae (-d - ) See synarthrosis .

Syndactylism

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.