15-letter words containing e, y, t, h
- psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
- puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- punch the bundy — to start work
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- quantity theory — a theory stating that the general price level varies directly with the quantity of money in circulation and the velocity with which it is circulated, and inversely with the volume of production expressed by the total number of money transactions
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- sahitya akademi — a body set up by the Government of India for cultivating literature in Indian languages and in English
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
- schottky effect — a reduction in the energy required to remove an electron from a solid surface in a vacuum when an electric field is applied to the surface
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- seventy-seventh — next after the seventy-sixth; being the ordinal number for 77.
- skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
- 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.
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- 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.
- south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- synthetic resin — any of a large class of complex organic liquids or solids formed from simpler molecules by condensation or polymerization, used esp. in making plastics
- take the mickey — mock
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.