13-letter words containing a, f, r, c, y
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
- significatory — serving to signify
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
- vicar of bray — a vicar (Simon Aleyn) appointed to the parish of Bray in Berkshire during Henry VIII's reign who changed his faith to Catholic when Mary I was on the throne and back to Protestant when Elizabeth I succeeded and so retained his living
- year of grace — a specified year of the Christian era: this year of grace; the year of grace 1982.