13-letter words containing e, y, s, o, r
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
- estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- extrasystoles — Plural form of extrasystole.
- extrasystolia — (medicine) An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
- extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
- general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
- geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- giorgi system — a system of units based on the metre, kilogram, second, and ampere, in which the magnetic constant has the value 4π × 10–7 henries per metre. It was used as a basis for SI units
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
- great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
- grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
- grocery store — supermarket, food shop
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- heterostrophy — the condition of being heterostrophic
- heterostylism — the condition of being heterostyled
- heterozygosis — the state of being a heterozygote.
- heterozygotes — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
- heusler alloy — any of various alloys of manganese and other nonferromagnetic metals that exhibit ferromagnetism.
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- holyroodhouse — a royal palace in Edinburgh in Scotland: official residence of the Queen when in Scotland; begun in 1501 by James IV of Scotland; scene of the murder of David Rizzio in 1566
- home row keys — home keys
- honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
- honor society — (in a college, university, or secondary school) a student society that admits members on the basis of academic merit and, sometimes, worthwhile contributions in extracurricular activities.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.