13-letter words containing c, r, e, s, y
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dressy casual — (of clothes) informal yet expensive, smart, or stylish
- dyer's rocket — weld2 .
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
- early closing — shop closure at earlier hour
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
- eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- electrotypist — an electrotyper
- energy crisis — a shortfall in or interruption to the provision of energy supplies
- escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
- estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
- exercise yard — a piece of enclosed ground in a prison on which inmates can exercise in order to get fit and to remain healthy
- extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
- extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
- grocery store — supermarket, food shop
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperesthetic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperesthesia.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hypersarcosis — a fleshy outgrowth
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypochlorites — Plural form of hypochlorite.
- hyposecretion — a diminished secretion.