13-letter words containing e, y, s, r
- psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- pyrophosphate — a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
- quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
- 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.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- realistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- relay station — a radio station that receives radio signals and retransmits them, in order to extend their range
- releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- resystematize — to systematize again
- reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
- river estuary — a river mouth
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
- rr lyrae star — Astronomy. one of a group of pulsating variable stars found in the halo of the Milky Way, with periods between 1.2 and 30 hours; all have approximately the same luminosity and are therefore used for measuring distances.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.