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13-letter words containing t, e, r, i, o, y

  • saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
  • security zone — an area controlled by security forces
  • 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
  • society verse — light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • 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.
  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • 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.
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • stentoriously — stentorian.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
  • supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
  • 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.
  • taylor series — an approximation of a given function f at a particular point x, in terms of values of the function and its derivatives at a neighboring point x 0 , by a power series in which the terms are given by f (n) (x 0) (x−x 0) n/n !, where f (n) (x 0) is the derivative of order n evaluated at point x 0 .
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • territorially — of or relating to territory or land.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
  • thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
  • tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
  • topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
  • torrentiality — the quality or state of being torrential
  • tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
  • trinity house — an association that provides lighthouses, buoys, etc, around the British coast
  • triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
  • tropical year — year (def 4b).
  • tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
  • type ii error — the error made in the statistical testing of a hypothesis by accepting the null hypothesis when it is actually false.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
  • variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
  • victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
  • vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • winter savory — See under savory2 .
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