13-letter words containing g, r, e, a, s, y
- marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
- martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- moneychangers — Plural form of moneychanger.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- 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.
- nosogeography — the study of the geographical causes and distribution of diseases.
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- overlay glass — case glass.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
- press-agentry — the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.