14-letter words containing d, r, e, y, s
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
- semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- zephyr worsted — lightweight worsted yarn.