13-letter words containing c, r, y, i, n, g
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- inorganically — In an inorganic manner.
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
- nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- normoglycemic — (medicine) Having the normal amount of glucose in the blood.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- 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.
- significatory — serving to signify
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- vacuum drying — the removal of liquid from a solution or mixture at reduced air pressure so that it dries at a lower temperature than would be required at full pressure.
- virginia city — a mining town in W Nevada: famous for the discovery of the rich Comstock silver lode 1859.
- virginiamycin — any of various antibacterial substances derived from the bacterium Streptomyces virginiae, used in antibiotics and in animal feed as a growth stimulant.
- waygoing crop — away-going crop.
- yachting trip — a pleasure trip on a yacht