13-letter words containing i, d, y
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
- residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
- sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
- scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- 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-identify — identify (defs 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.
- self-identity — the identity or consciousness of identity of a thing with itself.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
- shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
- sidereal year — year (def 4c).
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- sigmoidoscopy — an examination by means of a sigmoidoscope.
- silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
- six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- sodomitically — in a sodomitical manner
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
- spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
- spondylolysis — the destruction of the vertebra
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- sunny side up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
- sunny-side up — (of an egg) fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over, with the yolk remaining visible and somewhat liquid inside.
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
- synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage