12-letter words containing o, i, l, e, r, y
- pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
- pyroelectric — pertaining to, subject to, or manifesting pyroelectricity.
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- rebelliously — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- reciprocally — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
- reg-symbolic — An early system on the IBM 704.
- relationally — in a relational manner
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- reticulocyte — a very young red blood cell, sampled as a measure of red blood cell formation; reticulated erythrocyte.
- rhetorically — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- royal tennis — court tennis.
- silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
- six-year-old — being six years in age
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- solitary bee — any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
- storytelling — the telling or writing of stories.
- streptolysin — a type of hemolysin produced by certain species of streptococcus.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- tolerability — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- trolley line — the route of a trolley car or trolley bus.
- trolley wire — an overhead wire that provides the current required for the trolleys of electric vehicles
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- unheroically — in an unheroic manner
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- worldly-wise — wise as to the affairs of this world.
- yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
- yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
- yellow river — the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)