13-letter words containing s, p, e, y
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- dispossessory — to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- ecophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
- ecopsychology — A form of psychology based on integration with the natural world rather than with society.
- electrotypist — an electrotyper
- emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- encyclopedias — Plural form of encyclopedia.
- encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
- encyclopedist — A person who writes, edits, or contributes to an encyclopedia.
- enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
- epicondylitis — A painful inflammation of tendons surrounding an epicondyle.
- epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
- epinastically — in an epinastic manner
- epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
- exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
- excess supply — a situation in which the market supply of a commodity is greater than the market demand for it, thus causing its market price to fall
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- expert system — (artificial intelligence) A computer program that contains a knowledge base and a set of algorithms or rules that infer new facts from knowledge and from incoming data. An expert system is an artificial intelligence application that uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in solving problems. The degree of problem solving is based on the quality of the data and rules obtained from the human expert. Expert systems are designed to perform at a human expert level. In practice, they will perform both well below and well above that of an individual expert. The expert system derives its answers by running the knowledge base through an inference engine, a software program that interacts with the user and processes the results from the rules and data in the knowledge base. Expert systems are used in applications such as medical diagnosis, equipment repair, investment analysis, financial, estate and insurance planning, route scheduling for delivery vehicles, contract bidding, counseling for self-service customers, production control and training.
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- 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
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- gypsy setting — a setting, as on a ring, completely enclosing the girdle of the stone.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- heterostrophy — the condition of being heterostrophic
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- honeycreepers — Plural form of honeycreeper.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.