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15-letter words containing a, y, s

  • look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • macro-sociology — the sociological study of large-scale social systems and long-term patterns and processes.
  • macroscopically — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
  • main royal mast — the part of the mainmast situated immediately above, and generally formed as a single spar with, the main topgallantmast.
  • malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
  • manorial system — manorialism.
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • market analysis — the process of determining factors, conditions, and characteristics of a market.
  • martensitically — in a martensitic manner
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
  • mass psychology — the study of the behavior of large groups of people.
  • master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
  • maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
  • maundy thursday — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus' Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet upon that day.
  • meantone system — a system for tuning keyboard instruments, used before the development of tuning by equal temperament and considered practical only for tonalities of not more than two sharps or flats.
  • mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
  • merry christmas — well-wishes for Christmas season
  • microcosmically — in a microcosmic manner
  • microphysically — in a microphysical manner
  • microscopically — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
  • mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
  • midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
  • military school — military academy.
  • minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
  • miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
  • miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
  • monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
  • morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • multical system — E-mail: Richard Snodgrass <[email protected]>.
  • multispeciality — Alternative form of multispecialty.
  • myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • nanocrystalline — Of, pertaining to, or composed of nanocrystals.
  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
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