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13-letter words containing s, y, r, o

  • ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
  • electrotypist — an electrotyper
  • 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.
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
  • escort agency — an agency where people, esp young women, may be hired to accompany someone for entertainment, etc
  • estrous cycle — the regular female reproductive cycle of most placental mammals that is under hormonal control and includes a period of heat, followed by ovulation and complex changes of the uterine lining
  • expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
  • extrasystoles — Plural form of extrasystole.
  • extrasystolia — (medicine) An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
  • extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • 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.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • 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-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.
  • 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
  • harry hotspur — the nickname of Sir Henry Percy
  • have eyes for — to be interested in
  • he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
  • heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
  • heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
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