13-Letter Words Starting with S

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

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

Can Oasis guess about wiseness (wordplay)

SAILBOARDING sailboard

Prurience

Salinization

Salmonberry

""Pl. salmonelloses (-s z ) Infection with salmonellae, marked by intestinal problems and fever and caused especially by eating certain improperly stored or undercooked foods.""

""Pl. salmonelloses (-s z ) Infection with salmonellae, marked by intestinal problems and fever and caused especially by eating certain improperly stored or undercooked foods.""

Spring orators

Salvationism

Holier-than-thou

Making a show of being morally superior

Spreading unction's aim, so unctuous

Sanitization

""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

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

Scenographer

Scenography

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 flash of light

Scintillator

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 .""

Scratchboard

Scrumptious

Seasonality

Condition fit for sailing

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

Secessionism

Secessionist

Secobarbital

The state of being secondary.

Secretagogue

Sectionalism

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

Segmentation

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

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

Of or pertaining to seismology.

Certain earth scientists sit awkwardly in various slimes and goos

Seismometry

Selectionist

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 ,""

Selenologist

Semasiology

Like some firearms

Firearm came out with its aim suspect

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

Semimonthly

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

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

Inflected form of TONICALLY Inflected form of TONIC something that refreshes

Sensational

""SENSITISE SENSI a teacher of Japanese martial arts, also SENSEI""

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Sensitometer

Photography

""Of, relating to, or involving the sensory nerves, especially as they affect the hearing: sensorineural deafness.""

Sententious

One wanting to secede

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

Rendering a person bankrupt

Legal seizure

Occurring by happy chance

Able to make lucky discoveries

Chance used to inspire anagrams

SERIALIZE SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Seriousness

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Serological

Serpiginous

Sexdecillion

Informal Exploitative use of explicit sexual material in movies and the media.

Shadowiness

Shallowness

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

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

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Importance of indication providing one positive particle

Silhouettist

Sinuousness

Siphonophore

Siphonostele

Situational

SKATEBOARDER skateboard

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

SKELETONISE

Skeletonizer

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Slaveholding

Slouchiness

Slumpflation

Minor investors' allotments (wordplay)

Made sing behind tiny old fortress in little farms

Unprincipled politicians

SNOWBOARDING snowboard

Snowmobiling

Snowmobilist

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.

Softhearted

Solarization

Abstract noun (-ity)

""The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. as, the solemnization of a marriage.""

Some robocalls

English word

Solifluction

SOLILOQUISE

Soliloquizer

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Solvability

SOMATOLOGIC

Somatopleure

Of or relating to the perception of sensory stimuli from the skin and internal organs: the somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex.

Somatostatin

Variant of somatotropin .

Somatotropin

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Somnambulate

Somnambulism

Lady Macbeth and others

Dreaming Rovers failing MOT, lass is numb

Sleepwalkers

Somnifacient

Songfulness

SONNETEERING sonneteer

Sophistical

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Noel and Cole, for example

Sorbability

Sorrowful

Soteriology

Sottishness

Soulfulness

Preventing transmission of noise

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

""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.""

Sovereignty

SOVIETIZE SOVIET a legislative body in a Communist country

In irregular bursts

In fits and starts

Speakerphone

Detailed description of requirements

Detailed design description

Detailed requirement of work to be done

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.""

SPEEDBOATING speedboat

Caves

Speleologist

Spermatocyte

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

Pl. spermatogonia (-n - ) Any of the cells of the gonads in male organisms that are the progenitors of spermatocytes.

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Spermatozoan

Spermatozoid

Sphygmograph

Spinsterhood

SPIROCHETE

SPIROCHETE

Magnificent, impressive

Rather wonderful

Brilliant spies flounder after ill-treatment

Splenectomy