13-letter words containing d, r, e, y, s
- indiscernibly — In a way that cannot be discerned.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- interindustry — occurring or existing between two or more industries
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
- lady mayoress — the wife of a lord mayor
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
- lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
- merry dancers — the aurora borealis
- midi-pyrénées — a region of SW France: consists of N slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, a fertile lowland area in the west crossed by the River Garonne, and the edge of the Massif Central in the north and east
- midsummer day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- mollycoddlers — Plural form of mollycoddler.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- non-sedentary — accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- overdiversity — excessive diversity
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- send away for — order by post
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- sidereal year — year (def 4c).
- six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- stony-hearted — hardhearted.