13-letter words containing r, y, o
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- proliferously — by proliferation
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
- propeller key — feature key
- property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
- property porn — a genre of escapist TV programmes, magazine features, etc, showing desirable properties for sale, esp those in idyllic rural locations, or in need of renovation, or both
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proprietarily — belonging to a proprietor.
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protriptyline — a white to yellow powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 N, used for the treatment of depression.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychohistory — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- pyretotherapy — therapy by raising the body temperature, as by diathermy or by artificially inducing fever.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrophosphate — a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
- racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
- ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- re-employment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
- ready-to-wear — clothing made in standard sizes; ready-made clothing.
- real property — an estate or property consisting of lands and of all appurtenances to lands, as buildings, crops, or mineral rights (distinguished from personal property).