13-letter words containing g, r, a, y, i
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
- raiding party — a group of people who together carry out a raid
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- rally driving — the sport of taking part in motor rallies
- 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.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- 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.
- 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
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- significatory — serving to signify
- spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- 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
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- 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.
- straight away — immediately
- 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.
- 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.
- thyroid gland — a two-lobed endocrine gland, located at the base of the neck that secretes two hormones that regulate the rates of metabolism, growth, and development.
- timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
- transmisogyny — discrimination or prejudice against transgender women.
- tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
- triangularity — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
- 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.
- typographical — of or relating to typography.
- 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.
- unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
- unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.