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13-letter words containing c, y, p, r, e

  • 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.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
  • pyrocellulose — cordite.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • receptibility — the quality or condition of being receptible
  • reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • record player — phonograph.
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
  • replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
  • the ryder cup — the trophy awarded in a professional golfing competition between teams representing Europe and the US
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • tricarpellary — having three carpels.
  • tropical year — year (def 4b).
  • turkey carpet — a wool carpet made in one piece and having a deep velvety pile and rich glowing colours
  • unperceivably — imperceptibly
  • unperceivedly — without being perceived; so as not to be perceived
  • unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
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