15-letter words containing l, y, a, s
- nonautonomously — In a manner that is not autonomous, or that lacks autonomy.
- nonclassicality — The condition of being nonclassical.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- oppositionality — Quality of being oppositional.
- ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- pamprodactylous — having all four toes directed forward, as in swifts and colies.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- pastoral prayer — the main prayer in a church service.
- pathophysiology — the physiology of abnormal or diseased organisms or their parts; the functional changes associated with a disease or syndrome.
- pay-and-display — denoting a car-parking system in which a motorist buys a permit to park for a specified period from a coin-operated machine and displays the permit on or near the windscreen of his or her car so that it can be seen by a parking attendant
- pearly nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- pessimistically — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
- philosophically — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- physical optics — the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
- physiologically — of or relating to physiology.
- physiopathology — pathophysiology.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
- platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.