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14-letter words containing a, r, o, y, s

  • statutory rape — sexual intercourse or other sexual relations with a person under the legal age of consent, which age varies in different states. See also rape1 (def 1).
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • strange to say — surprisingly
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • supererogatory — going beyond the requirements of duty.
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • take years off — to make (someone) feel or look much younger
  • tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
  • ultra-royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • x short of a y — If you say that someone is, for example, several cards short of a full deck or one sandwich short of a picnic, you think they are stupid, foolish, or crazy.
  • yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
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