13-letter words containing y, a, g, i, e
- plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
- quinquagenary — a 50th anniversary.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- 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.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- rheologically — in a rheological manner
- right you are — If someone says 'right you are', they are agreeing to do something in a very willing and happy way.
- rotary engine — an engine, as a turbine, in which the impelling fluid produces torque directly rather than by acting upon reciprocating parts.
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- 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
- sexagesimally — into sixtieths
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- space biology — exobiology.
- speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
- 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.
- synthesis gas — any of several gaseous mixtures consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, used in the synthesis of chemical compounds, as ammonia and alcohols.
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- tangentiality — pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
- telegenically — having physical qualities or characteristics that televise well; videogenic.
- theologically — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
- threateningly — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- ticket agency — an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.
- tread lightly — to proceed with delicacy or tact
- trigger happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- trigger-happy — ready to fire a gun at the least provocation, regardless of the situation or probable consequences: a trigger-happy hunter.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
- unbenignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- undeviatingly — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.