13-letter words containing a, c, e, y
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- realistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- reality check — a corrective confronting of reality, in order to counteract one's expectations, prejudices, or the like.
- recallability — the quality of being recallable
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- record player — phonograph.
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
- recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
- royal charter — authorization by the monarchy
- royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous