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.""

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Person in a painful relationship!

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

Salesmanship

""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.""

Sarcophagus

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.

Sclerenchyma

Scratchboard

Scrimshander

Condition fit for sailing

What ship needs, in water, so she's tight

Status honored during the diagonal occasion, in April

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

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

Selfishness

Semimonthly

Inflected form of SYNTHETIC Inflected form of SYNTH a synthesizer

Shadowiness

Shallowness

Brazen quality

Lack of form

Shapeliness

Sharecropper

SHARECROP

SWAT team specialists

*Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, for two

Observant weapons are used to sniping

Expert firing cheats, then laughing loudly

Irish instrument in ship mimicking owl could take the head off you from way out

Sheepherding

Sheepshearer

Fleece cutting

What a call from Bo Peep depends on (wordplay)

Australian sport

Shellcracker

She twice pressed around women like Chloe

Mary was one of them - she repeatedly pressed for change

Shiftless

Shipbuilding

Shortchanger

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Sporting attractions on cruise liners

Shuttlecock

Sickishness

Sightless

Sightliness

Silhouettist

Siphonophore

Siphonostele

Sketchiness

Slaveholding

Slavishness

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Slouchiness

Minor investors' allotments (wordplay)

Made sing behind tiny old fortress in little farms

Softhearted

English word

Variant of somatotropin .

Sophistical

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Noel and Cole, for example

Sottishness

""SOUTHEASTER A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

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

Southernwood

""To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.""

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Speakerphone

The office or quality of a spectator.

Spectrograph

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Speechwriter

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Sphygmograph

Spinsterhood

SPIROCHETE

SPIROCHETE

Splashiness

English word

Sportfishing

Sense of fair play

Spirit of good baseball.

Playing the game

Sprachgefuhl

Youthful agility

(Of an older person) energy, lively quality

Agility

Squashiness

Squeamish

Attendant with historical records (five lost) for certain governments

Squishiness

Stablishment

Staggerbush

By way of being reserved

Pathogenic bacteria

Starchiness

Dulles' forte.

Political wisdom

Political skill

Staunchness

Steeplebush

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

They present hurdles

Some horse races

Horse races

They work for dictators

Working girls.

Stenography

Stepdaughter

Stephanotis

Stereograph

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

Stereophony

Stichomythia

Stichomythy

Stickhandler

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

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

'97 Son Volt album about driving (wordplay)

Straightbred

Rulers

""STRAIGHTENER One who, or that which, straightens.""

De-kinking

Aligning

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

They'll take your breath away

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

Stratosphere

Sky-high (informal)

Unusually, orchestra pit's very high

Belonging to the upper air

Energizing agents

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.

Strophanthin

Stylishness

Stylography

""INHIBITORY Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.""

Subparagraph

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Superathlete

Shoppers with big tabs

Turbochargers' cousins

Turbochargers' mechanically-driven cousins

""SUPERCHARGE To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess. as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.""

Superchurch

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Brightly colored and simply designed graphic shapes of billboard proportions.

Superharden

Superheroine

Types of rapid transit

""SUPERHUMAN Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom. as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.""

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

English word

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Surgeonfish

Survivorship

Swarthiness

Swashbuckler

Full of bravado

Taking part in daring adventures

Describing heroes of costume novels.

Swinishness

Switchback

Switchgrass

Skill at fencing

Skill with a blade

Sycophantism

Pl. sympathectomies Surgical removal of a part of the sympathetic nervous system.

Opposing the physiological effects caused by stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympatholytic treatment.

SYMPHONIC Symphonious.

Symphonious

Synaesthesia

Pl. synarthrodiae (-d - ) See synarthrosis .

Synchromesh

Coincidence or unrelated events

Southern yard and northern yard admitting persistent Italian is coincidence

SYNCHRONISE

""Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables. as, synchronistic tables.""

Clash reducers in manual transmissions

Dubbing experts

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

In simultaneous manner

Synchroscope

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.

In a synthetic manner.