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

  • legionary ant — army ant
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • library table — a large pedestal writing table or desk.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
  • lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • literacy test — an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
  • livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
  • magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
  • majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
  • marketability — readily salable.
  • martagon lily — Turk's-cap lily.
  • martini-henry — a breech-loaded .45 caliber rifle adopted in 1871 as the standard British service weapon, using a center-fire metallic cartridge filled with black powder.
  • martyrization — The act or process of martyrizing.
  • martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
  • mass hysteria — a condition affecting a group of persons, characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness.
  • master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
  • maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
  • matriculatory — relating to matriculation
  • matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
  • matrilineally — In matrilineal fashion.
  • matrimonially — In a matrimonial way.
  • measurability — capable of being measured.
  • mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • meritoriously — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
  • metamerically — In a metameric manner.
  • metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
  • metric martyr — a shopkeeper or trader willing to be prosecuted for continuing to use only imperial measures as a protest against the perceived imposition of metric measures by the European Union
  • metric system — a decimal system of weights and measures, adopted first in France but now widespread, universally used in science, mandatory for use for all purposes in a large number of countries, and favored for use in most (as in the U.S.). The basic units are the meter (39.37 inches) for length and the gram (15.432 grains) for mass or weight. Derived units are the liter (0.908 U.S. dry quart, or 1.0567 U.S. liquid quart) for capacity, being the volume of 1000 grams of water under specified conditions; the are (119.6 square yards) for area, being the area of a square 10 meters on a side; and the stere (35.315 cubic feet) for volume, being the volume of a cube 1 meter on a side, the term “stere,” however, usually being used only in measuring firewood. Names for units larger and smaller than these are formed from the above names by the use of the following prefixes: kilo-, 1000; hecto-, 100; deka-, 10; deci-, 0.1; centi-, 0.01; milli-, 0.001. To these are often added: tera-, one trillion; giga-, one billion; mega-, one million. With the addition of basic physical units it is now officially known by the French name Le Système International d'Unités (abbreviation SI, ) or in English as the International System of Units.
  • microcrystals — Plural form of microcrystal.
  • micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
  • microporosity — the state of being microporous
  • microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
  • military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
  • military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
  • military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
  • military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
  • military time — 24-hour clock
  • ministerially — In the character or capacity of a minister.
  • minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
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