10-letter words containing r, e, l, a, y, c
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- gracefully — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- gray-scale — (spelling) US spelling of "grey-scale".
- grey-scale — (graphics) (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- illiteracy — a lack of ability to read and write.
- irenically — In an irenical manner.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- layer cake — a cake made in layers, with a cream, jelly, or other filling between them.
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- macrocycle — (chemistry) a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule.
- metrically — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- necrolatry — worship of the dead.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- perl-byacc — A modified version of byacc that generates a parser in Perl code, by Rick Ohnemus <[email protected]>. It has a "-p" switch so multiple parsers can be used in one program (C or Perl). Version 1.8.2 should work on most Unix systems. It also works with SAS/C 6.x on Amiga.
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- reactively — tending to react.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- recyclable — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- relay race — a race between two or more teams of contestants, each contestant being relieved by a teammate after running part of the distance.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- reply card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- starchedly — in a starched manner
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- tracklayer — section hand.
- urea cycle — a metabolic process by which ammonia derived from amino acids is converted into urea in the liver.
- vertically — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- viscerally — of or relating to the viscera.
- watercycle — any of various small watercraft that are moved by working pedals or treadles