15-letter words containing d, o, y, l
- secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- sell one's body — If someone sells their body, they have sex for money.
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- social dynamics — the study of social processes, especially social change.
- 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)
- sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- 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.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- 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.
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
- to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unconditionally — not limited by conditions; absolute: an unconditional promise.
- unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
- under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
- untraditionally — in an untraditional fashion; not traditionally
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- uropygial gland — a gland opening on the back at the base of the tail in most birds that secretes an oily fluid used by the bird in preening its feathers.
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- wood woollyfoot — a common yellowish basidiomycetous fungus, Collybia peronata, of broad-leaved woodland, having a hairy tuft at the foot of the stem
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- yellow lead ore — wulfenite.
- yellow mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
- young's modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between a stress that acts to change the length of a body and the fractional change in length caused by this force.