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13-letter words containing g, e, t, y, s

  • investigatory — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
  • kyrgyz steppe — a vast steppe region in central Kazakhstan
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • legacy system — (jargon)   A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
  • legislatively — By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
  • martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
  • megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
  • merrythoughts — Plural form of merrythought.
  • mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • no entry sign — a sign, esp a traffic sign, that prohibits entry into a place
  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
  • press-agentry — the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • 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-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • seventy-eight — a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
  • sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
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