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13-letter words containing r, a, y, s, i

  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • 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.
  • storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
  • storm trysail — a small fore-and-aft sail, triangular or square, set on the mainmast of a sailing vessel in foul weather to help keep her head to the wind
  • straight away — immediately
  • 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.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
  • survivability — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
  • sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • synarthrodial — synarthrosis.
  • syrian desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia, SE Syria, W Iraq, and NE Jordan. About 125,000 sq. mi. (323,750 sq. km).
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • taylor series — an approximation of a given function f at a particular point x, in terms of values of the function and its derivatives at a neighboring point x 0 , by a power series in which the terms are given by f (n) (x 0) (x−x 0) n/n !, where f (n) (x 0) is the derivative of order n evaluated at point x 0 .
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • transitionary — movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
  • transmisogyny — discrimination or prejudice against transgender women.
  • transmittancy — a measure of the extent to which a solution transmits radiation. It is equal to the ratio of the transmittance of the solution to the transmittance of a pure solvent of the same dimensions
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • treasury bill — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • ultraphysical — extremely physical
  • ultraroyalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
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