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13-letter words containing r, y, s

  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
  • free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • frelinghuysenFrederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
  • general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
  • geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • giorgi system — a system of units based on the metre, kilogram, second, and ampere, in which the magnetic constant has the value 4π × 10–7 henries per metre. It was used as a basis for SI units
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • gray squirrel — a common, grayish squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, of eastern North America.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • grey squirrel — a grey-furred squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, native to E North America but now widely established elsewhere
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • grocery store — supermarket, food shop
  • gross anatomy — the branch of anatomy that deals with structures that can be seen with the naked eye.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
  • harley street — a street in London, England: noted for the eminent doctors who have offices there.
  • harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
  • haskell curry — (person)   Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
  • have eyes for — to be interested in
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
  • heart surgery — operation to treat cardiac problems
  • heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
  • heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
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