14-letter words containing d, o, i, 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.
- south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
- 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
- theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
- 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.
- to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
- topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
- traditionality — of or relating to tradition.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- unsynchronized — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- worldly wisdom — experience of the world that makes you difficult to shock or deceive
- worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
- yellow-bellied — having a yellow abdomen or underside.
- yoda condition — (programming) The programming practise of using if (constant == variable) e.g. if (4 == foo) instead of the more natural if (variable == constant) It is named after the Star Wars character Yoda who says things like "Strong is Vader". It may have been invented as a way to prevent coding errors like if (count = 5) (accidentally using a single "=" (assignment) instead of a double "==" (comparison)). The above is syntactically valid whereas the Yoda equivalent would give a compile-time error.
- yorkshire bond — flying bond.
- young marrieds — young married people