13-letter words containing a, c, r, o, y
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- 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.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
- 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
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- roxas y acuña — Manuel (maˈnwel). 1892–1948, Philippine statesman; first president of the Republic of the Philippines (1946–48)
- 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.
- saccharolytic — of or causing the hydrolysis of sugars.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacrosanctity — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- 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.
- scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
- 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.
- scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).