13-letter words containing i, a, t, r, y
- liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
- liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
- library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
- library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
- library table — a large pedestal writing table or desk.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- literacy test — an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- marketability — readily salable.
- martagon lily — Turk's-cap lily.
- martini-henry — a breech-loaded .45 caliber rifle adopted in 1871 as the standard British service weapon, using a center-fire metallic cartridge filled with black powder.
- martyrization — The act or process of martyrizing.
- martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
- mass hysteria — a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness.
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
- maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
- matriculatory — relating to matriculation
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- matrilineally — In matrilineal fashion.
- matrimonially — In a matrimonial way.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- metamerically — In a metameric manner.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- metric martyr — a shopkeeper or trader willing to be prosecuted for continuing to use only imperial measures as a protest against the perceived imposition of metric measures by the European Union
- microcrystals — Plural form of microcrystal.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
- military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
- military time — 24-hour clock
- ministerially — In the character or capacity of a minister.
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multiliteracy — The ability to be literate in terms of text in media other than paper.
- multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.