13-letter words containing y, r
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- 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
- eternity ring — a ring given as a token of lasting affection, esp one set all around with stones to symbolize continuity
- ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
- 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.
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- exaggeratedly — To an excessive degree; in an exaggerated manner.
- exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
- excoriatingly — So as to excoriate.
- exercise yard — a piece of enclosed ground in a prison on which inmates can exercise in order to get fit and to remain healthy
- 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.
- exothermicity — (chemistry, physics) The release of heat during an exothermic reaction.
- expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
- 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.
- explanatorily — With regard to explanatory power.
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- exportability — The property of being exportable.
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- extemporarily — In an extemporary manner.
- exterminatory — Relating to or marked by extermination.
- extralimitary — outside the limits or borders of an area
- extraliterary — outside of literature
- extraordinary — Very unusual or remarkable.
- 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.
- extravagantly — With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
- extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- fabricability — able to be formed or shaped; capable of being constructed or manufactured.
- factory floor — The factory floor refers to the workers in a factory, as opposed to the managers. It can also refer to the area where they work.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
- fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
- family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- 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.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.