13-Letter Words Starting with S

SPLENECTOMIZE

English word

Spokesperson

Plural or third person singular

Spondylitis

Spontaneity

On the spur of the moment

Pal's sonnet you rewrite on impulse

Unpremeditatedly

A polymer that constitutes the outer wall of spores and pollen grains.

Sportfishing

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

Commentators without much to do these days

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

Sense of fair play

Spirit of good baseball.

Playing the game

Certain journalists

Specialized reporting

STABILIZE STABILE a stationary abstract sculpture

By way of being reserved

Pathogenic bacteria

Man in charge at Waterloo (wordplay)

Man in command at Waterloo (wordplay)

He has training in being the boss

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stegosaurus

They work for dictators

Working girls.

Stenography

Stephanotis

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

Stereograph

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

Stereoisomer

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

Stereophony

Stereopticon

English word

Stereoscopy

Conventionalised novel operatic style

Operatic style devised in keeping with stock character

Hackneyed

""The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.""

""With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.""

Sternutation

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stichomythia

Stichomythy

Stigmasterol

Stockbreeder

Stockbroking

Stockjobbing

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

Producing stolons; putting forth suckers.

Stonecutting

Storyboard

Storytelling

They'll take your breath away

The choking off of a flow

Choking from lungs' atria not working

Process of choking

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.""

Stratosphere

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.

Strenuosity

Strenuous

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

STREPTOCOCCI

Bacterium causing sore throat etc

Genus of bacteria

Bacterium often causing infection

""A proteolytic enzyme that is produced by hemolytic streptococci, is capable of converting plasminogen to plasmin, and is used medically to dissolve blood clots.""

Streptolysin

English word

Streptomycin

Stridulation

Stringcourse

""STROBILATION The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

Stromatolite

STROMATOLITE

Strontianite

Strophanthin

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

Stupefaction

Stylography

ADOLESCENT Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

ALLOCATION The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

BITUMINOUS Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.

Subcategory

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""COLLECTION The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. as, the collection of specimens.""

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

""COMMISSION The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.""

Where many testimonials are given

Subcomponent

Subcontinent

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

Construction project bidder

Firm undertaking part of another's agreement

Subcontrary

""CORIACEOUS Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.""

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

Suberization

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

""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.""

""IRRIGATION The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.""

OPTIMIZING optimize

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

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Surreptitious.

""SATURATION The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.""

Numbers of magazines

""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.""

Substitution

It's all under standing

Underground

The act of making subtile.

SUBVENTION The act of coming under.

Promoting destruction.

VOCALIZING vocalize

Suffocating

Sulfonylurea

Sulfurous

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Sumptuous

Superabound

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

Adjective (-ous)

Powerful particle accelerator

Adjective (-al)

Powerful mainframe hardware

Very powerful calculator

Powerful data processor

Superconduct

English word

""The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.""

In an excess manner

Superheroine

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

Superiority

Person associated with (-ist)

Person associated with (-ist)

""Pl. supermajorities A specified majority of votes, such as 60 percent, required to approve a motion or pass legislation.""

SUPERNATION

Supernormal

SUPERORDINATE

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

SUPEROVULATE

Superovulate

FLAG-WAVERS

SUPERPERSON

The state of being above something

SUPERPOWER

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

Supersession

Superstardom

Superstation

Beliefs in omens, charms, etc.

Puts out irises (anagram)

Given to irrational beliefs

Disposed to believe in omens

Supersurgeon

SUPERVENTION The act of supervening.

English word

English word

The act of supplanting or displacing.

""SUPPLICATION The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""

Standing after drink? Ale not finished, it's presumed

Suppository

With power or influence transcending borders

Adjective (-al)

Surgeonfish

Surrejoinder

Clandestine pursuit Tories abandoned

Covert pursuit with sortie organised

Trio mixing with EU purists in secret

Survivorship

Sustentation

Skill at fencing

Skill with a blade

Sycophantism

""The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275. Guide to Pron., §275.""

Symbiotical

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

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

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.

SYNECOLOGIC

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

The act or process of systematizing; systematization.