14-letter words containing e, r, y, s
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- butterfly bush — buddleia
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
- by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
- c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
- caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
- charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
- cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
- children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- chlorophyllase — an enzyme found in plants that decomposes chlorophyll by removing the phytol chain.
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- choral society — an organization of amateur singers
- christian year — a year in the ecclesiastical calendar, used especially in reference to the various feast days and special seasons.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- ciliary muscle — the smooth muscle in the ciliary body, the action of which affects the accommodation of the eye.
- clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consuetudinary — customary or traditional.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- copper pyrites — chalcopyrite
- coroner's jury — a jury called to give a decision by a coroner's inquest
- correspondency — correspondence
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
- cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.