15-letter words containing c, i, t, y, s, l
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
- self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
- socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
- solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- stalactitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalactites
- stalagmitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalagmites
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- strike it lucky — to have some good luck
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- syllogistically — of or relating to a syllogism.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- transactionally — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
- uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- unsarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- violinistically — in a violinistic manner
- visual literacy — the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.