13-letter words containing e, n, t, r, y, c
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quincentenary — a 500th anniversary or its celebration.
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- 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.
- security zone — an area controlled by security forces
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- the archenemy — the devil
- the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- 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.
- transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
- tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- underactivity — insufficient activity
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unreluctantly — unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.