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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 prayerthe, 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.
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