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13-letter words containing r, y, s

  • send away for — order by post
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • seventy-three — a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
  • 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.
  • shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
  • 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.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
  • siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
  • sidereal year — year (def 4c).
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
  • silky terrier — one of an Australian breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, blue coat with tan markings and erect ears, a topknot, and a docked tail.
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
  • skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
  • slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 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.
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • southeasterly — coming from the south east
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • 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.
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
  • spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
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