0%

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

  • baker's yeast — a yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) used in baking as a leavening, as for certain breads
  • banbury tarts — small baked pastries filled with raisins, currants, etc.
  • barbary coast — coastal region of N Africa, extending from Egypt to the Atlantic, inhabited chiefly by Berbers and once (until early 19th cent.) dominated by pirates
  • barbary sheep — aoudad
  • barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
  • binary pulsar — a pulsar in a binary system.
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • birthday bash — a birthday party
  • birthday suit — If you are in your birthday suit, you are not wearing any clothes.
  • blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
  • bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
  • butler's tray — a tray resting on or attached to an X-shaped, often folding stand, on which are kept drink bottles and glasses
  • buzzard's bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, in SE Massachusetts. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
  • calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
  • calvary cross — a Latin cross with a representation of three steps beneath it
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
  • castro valley — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
  • casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • charles lyell — Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
  • charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • christmas day — Christmas Day is the 25th of December, when Christmas is celebrated.
  • chromatolysis — the dissolution of stained material, such as chromatin in injured cells
  • chromosomally — With reference to chromosomes.
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
  • chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?