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13-letter words containing p, r, e, a, y

  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
  • soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • 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.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • 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
  • squash player — a person who plays squash
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • state prayers — prayers for the sovereign, the royal family, the clergy, and Parliament said at matins and evensong
  • 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
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • 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.
  • sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
  • sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
  • super tuesday — the Tuesday, typically in March, on which party members in over 20 states vote in primary elections to select their party's presidential candidate
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
  • supernumerary — being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
  • the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
  • the hyperreal — that which constitutes hyperreality
  • thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
  • thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
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