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13-letter words containing y, e, s, t, r

  • dysregulation — A failure to regulate properly.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, comprising the E part of the historical county of Ayrshire: part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Kilmarnock. Pop: 119 530 (2003 est). Area: 1252 sq km (483 sq miles)
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • easter sunday — Easter (def 2).
  • easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
  • ecclesiolatry — excessive reverence for churchly forms and traditions.
  • eddy currents — Eddy currents are localized electric currents set up in metal parts not normally meant to carry currents, due to changes in electromagnetic fields.
  • electrotypist — an electrotyper
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
  • eretz yisrael — the Holy Land; Israel
  • 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
  • evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
  • everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
  • exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
  • exit strategy — In politics and business, an exit strategy is a way of ending your involvement in a situation such as a military operation or a business arrangement.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • 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.
  • featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • 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.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • 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.
  • gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • 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
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • harley street — a street in London, England: noted for the eminent doctors who have offices there.
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