13-letter words containing ris
- crisis center — a central facility, telephone answering service, etc., where people may obtain informed help or advice in a personal crisis.
- crisis centre — a place providing help to victims of crime, natural disasters, etc
- crisscrossing — crossing over each other
- death tourist — a seriously ill person who seeks to terminate his or her own life by travelling to a country where medically assisted suicide is legal
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- deodorisation — Alternative form of deodorization.
- dioristically — in a dioristic manner
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
- easter rising — an armed insurrection in Dublin in 1916 against British rule in Ireland: the insurgents proclaimed the establishment of an independent Irish republic before surrendering, 16 of the leaders later being executed
- electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
- energy crisis — a shortfall in or interruption to the provision of energy supplies
- equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- extemporising — Present participle of extemporise.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- familiarising — Present participle of familiarise.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- formularising — Present participle of formularise.
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- garrison town — a town containing a military base
- glamorisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- gonochoristic — Of or pertaining to gonochorism.
- harishchandra — also known as Bharatendu. 1850–85, Indian poet, dramatist, and essayist, who established Hindi as a literary language
- heliocentrism — The theory that the sun is the center of the universe, (This theory is historically important and was widely accepted at the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.).
- heuristically — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- illustrissimo — most illustrious (esp as belonging to the Italian aristocracy)
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- imprisonments — Plural form of imprisonment.
- iris explorer — (mathematics, tool) Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)'s tool for developing visualisation applications via a visual programming environment. IRIS Explorer has a range of visualisation techniques, from simple graphs to multidimensional animation, that can help show trends and relationships in data. IRIS Explorer uses standard Open Inventor, ImageVision and OpenGL libraries as well as NAG's own numerical libraries. It is available for Windows, Unix and Linux. It has a point-and-click interface and a library of "modules" (software routines).
- irish english — the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.
- irish pennant — an unwhipped rope end.
- irish terrier — one of an Irish breed of terriers having a dense, wiry, reddish coat.
- irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
- japanese iris — a plant, Iris kaempferi, native to Japan, having broad, showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.