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13-letter words containing g, e, n, y

  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
  • roentgenology — the branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis and therapy through x-rays.
  • 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 gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • 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.
  • sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
  • self-deifying — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • siege economy — an economy in which the export of capital is limited and import controls are imposed
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • sleep hygiene — the habits conducive to getting the right amount and quality of sleep
  • speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • 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.
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • 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
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • 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.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • szent-gyorgyi — Albert [al-bert;; Hungarian ol-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; Hungarian ˈɒl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.
  • tangentiality — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
  • telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • the night sky — the sky as it appears at night time
  • threateningly — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
  • ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
  • 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.
  • tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • 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
  • twenty-eighth — next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
  • 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.
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
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