14-letter words containing d, e, s, y
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
- spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
- stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
- steel industry — production of steel
- steely-hearted — hard-hearted
- strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
- street orderly — street cleaner.
- strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- 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
- tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- 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.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- 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.
- un-synthesized — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
- unrestrictedly — in an unrestricted manner
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- unsystematized — not systematized or arranged in a system
- unyieldingness — the quality or state of being unyielding
- ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- ways and means — methods
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- west hollywood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- yesterday week — a week yesterday; a week ago from yesterday
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
- yorkshire bond — flying bond.
- young marrieds — young married people
- yuppie disease — any of a number of debilitating long-lasting viral disorders associated with stress, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, whose symptoms include muscle weakness, chronic tiredness, and depression
- zephyr worsted — lightweight worsted yarn.