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.

Safecracking

SAILBOARDING sailboard

Salmonberry

Spring orators

SAPROGENIC

In a sarcastic manner.

Sarcophagus

Sarsaparilla

Saturnalian

Scalariform

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

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

Schizophrene

A severe mental illness

Mental disorder, split mind in Greek

Disorder of Chopin's hazier works

SCHIZOPHRENE

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.

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

Condition fit for sailing

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

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

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

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

Seismometry

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

Semiaridity

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Semidiameter

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

""EVERGREEN Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.""

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

Semiliterate

Semiparasite

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

lasting more or less indefinitely

Lasting nearly for ever

These kind of membranes I peel off when less new

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.""

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

Sempiternal

Sensitometer

Photography

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

Property of sheep and goats in story, in different senses

One wanting to secede

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Rendering a person bankrupt

Legal seizure

Serendipity

Occurring by happy chance

Able to make lucky discoveries

Chance used to inspire anagrams

SERIALIZE SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

He raises silkworms

Seriousness

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Serological

Serpiginous

Serriedness

Servileness

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of certain terpenes whose molecules contain one and a half times as many atoms as a normal terpene. Formula: C 15 H 24 SPELEOTHERAPY (Medicine) a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease""

Some new retirees

People in their seventh decade

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

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

Silverberry

Silveriness

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Silviculture

Sincereness

Singularity

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

""Geology A chemical sediment or crust, as of porous silica, deposited by a mineral spring.""

Siphonophore

SKATEBOARDER skateboard

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

Skeletonizer

Skulduggery

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Slenderness

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

Unprincipled politicians

SNOWBOARDING snowboard

Of or involving both social and cultural factors.

Softhearted

Solarization

Abstract noun (-ity)

English word

Soliloquizer

Somatopleure

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

Variant of somatotropin .

Somatotropin

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

SONNETEERING sonneteer

Sorbability

Sorrowful

Soteriology

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

SPARKPLUG

Speakerphone

In a strikingly dramatic manner

In an ostentatious way

In impressive style

The office or quality of a spectator.

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

Speechwriter

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

Spiritualism

Spiritualist

""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.""

Spiritualize

The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritualminded; spirituality.

Spiritualty

SPIROCHETE

SPIROCHETE

Magnificent, impressive

Rather wonderful

Brilliant spies flounder after ill-treatment

Spokesperson

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

Sprachgefuhl

A. The act of spreading.

Youthful agility

(Of an older person) energy, lively quality

Agility

Springiness

Attendant with historical records (five lost) for certain governments

Staggerbush

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.""

Starchiness

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

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races