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13-letter words containing a, r, s, y

  • rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • risk analysis — A risk analysis is a process of deciding how likely it is that injury, damage, or loss will happen, and what the effects will be if it does happen.
  • river estuary — a river mouth
  • road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
  • rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • roxas y acuña — Manuel (maˈnwel). 1892–1948, Philippine statesman; first president of the Republic of the Philippines (1946–48)
  • royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
  • 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.
  • rr lyrae star — Astronomy. one of a group of pulsating variable stars found in the halo of the Milky Way, with periods between 1.2 and 30 hours; all have approximately the same luminosity and are therefore used for measuring distances.
  • saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
  • 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.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • salary earner — someone who earns a fixed regular payment made by an employer, often monthly, for professional or office work as opposed to manual work
  • salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
  • sanitary ware — plumbing fixtures, as sinks or toilet bowls, made of ceramic material or enameled metal.
  • sarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • saturnalianly — in a saturnalian or dissolute manner
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • scarcely ever — almost never, seldom
  • 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, ).
  • 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 butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • see you later — an expression of farewell
  • seismic array — a system of linked seismographs arranged in a regular geometric pattern to increase sensitivity to earthquake detection
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • self-flattery — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • send away for — order by post
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
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