15-letter words containing c, y
- 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.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- st. cyr-l'ecole — a town in N France, W of Versailles: military academy.
- 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
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- 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.
- subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- swiss army code — (programming, humour) Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- syllogistically — of or relating to a syllogism.
- symbolics, inc. — (company) The company which produced the Lisp Machine.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- synthetic resin — any of a large class of complex organic liquids or solids formed from simpler molecules by condensation or polymerization, used esp. in making plastics
- tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
- take the mickey — mock
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- telekinetically — in a telekinetic manner
- tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours