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13-letter words containing s, e, r, g, i, y

  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
  • martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
  • mesmerizingly — In a way or to an extent that mesmerizes.
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • navy register — (in the US) an annual publication giving genealogical information about the commissioned and warrant officers in the US Navy.
  • nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
  • no entry sign — a sign, esp a traffic sign, that prohibits entry into a place
  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • progressively — 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.
  • 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.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • 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
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • 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.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • szent-gyorgyi — Albert [al-bert;; Hungarian ol-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; Hungarian ˈɒl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Hungary: Nobel Prize in medicine 1937.
  • triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
  • undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
  • unresistingly — in an unresisting or unopposing manner
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • yesterevening — yesterday evening.
  • yestermorning — yesterday morning.
  • yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers
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