13-letter words containing c, y, r, e, n
- novocentenary — a nine-hundredth anniversary
- octocentenary — pertaining to 800 or a period of 800 years; marking the completion of 800 years.
- onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
- opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
- parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- pencil crayon — coloured pencil
- penny pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- petit larceny — petty larceny.
- petrocurrency — money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum
- petty larceny — law: minor theft
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- rankine cycle — the hypothetical cycle of a steam engine in which all heat transfers take place at constant pressure and in which expansion and compression occur adiabatically.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- 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.
- screen memory — a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.
- secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- 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.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.