16-letter words containing a, n, y, t
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
- shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
- situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
- slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
- smack in the eye — a snub or setback
- snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
- soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
- sony playstation — Playstation
- sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
- sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
- stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- standard annuity — A standard annuity is a retirement investment insurance contract that pays a regular income in return for a lump sum payment.
- standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
- start-up company — new business
- state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
- state's attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
- stationary front — a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
- stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
- stationary point — a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection
- stationary state — any of several energy states an atom may occupy without emitting electromagnetic radiation.
- statutory change — a change in the law
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
- summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
- sunray treatment — treatment using a sunray lamp
- syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- systems analysis — the evaluation of an activity to identify its desired objectives and determine procedures for efficiently attaining them.
- taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
- tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
- terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
- tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
- thanksgiving day — a national holiday celebrated as a day of feasting and giving thanks for divine favors or goodness, observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the U.S. and in Canada on the second Monday of October.
- the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
- the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
- the eternal city — Rome
- the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- the one and only — incomparable and unique
- the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
- thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
- three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- tinnevelly senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- to carry the can — If you have to carry the can, you have to take all the blame for something.
- to go a long way — If you say that something goes a long way towards doing a particular thing, you mean that it is an important factor in achieving that thing.