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13-letter words containing g, a, r, e, y

  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • rheologically — in a rheological manner
  • right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
  • rotary engine — an engine, as a turbine, in which the impelling fluid produces torque directly rather than by acting upon reciprocating parts.
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • saint gregorySaint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • 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.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • threateningly — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
  • travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
  • tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
  • trigger happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • unforgettably — impossible to forget; indelibly impressed on the memory: scenes of unforgettable beauty.
  • unregrettably — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
  • vindhya range — a mountain range in central India: separates the Ganges basin from the Deccan, marking the limits of northern and peninsular India. Greatest height: 1113 m (3651 ft)
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
  • year of grace — a specified year of the Christian era: this year of grace; the year of grace 1982.
  • yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
  • yelizavetgrad — a former name of Kirovograd.
  • young ireland — a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted
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