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15-letter words containing i, d, o, s, y

  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • microdiscectomy — (surgery) microdecompression.
  • modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
  • multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
  • myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
  • ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
  • platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
  • pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
  • pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • psyllid yellows — a viral disease transmitted by the potato psyllid, causing the young leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers to curl and turn yellow or purplish.
  • pycnodysostosis — a disorder characterized by fragile bones
  • radio astronomy — the branch of astronomy that utilizes extraterrestrial radiation in radio wavelengths rather than visible light for the study of the universe.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • san jacinto day — a legal holiday observed in Texas on April 21.
  • sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
  • school holidays — the period during which schools are closed - in the summer, at Christmas and Easter, and at other times of the year
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • 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.
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • 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.
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • x window system — (operating system, graphics)   A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications. X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86.
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