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16-letter words containing l, y, e

  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • sleep-wake cycle — Physiology. the species-specific biological pattern of alternating sleep and wakefulness, in humans roughly 8 hours of nocturnal sleep and 16 hours of daytime activity.
  • soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
  • social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • social secretary — a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.
  • sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
  • special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • spongy-mesophyll — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
  • sprinkler system — apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of water pipes in or below the ceilings, with valves or sprinklers usually made to open automatically at a certain temperature.
  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • styralyl acetate — methylphenylcarbinyl acetate.
  • sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.
  • surveyor's level — level (def 8a).
  • swine erysipelas — erysipelas (def 2).
  • symmetry element — any of four points, lines, or planes of a crystal: a center of symmetry, a reflection plane, a rotation axis, or a rotation-inversion axis.
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • systems analysis — the evaluation of an activity to identify its desired objectives and determine procedures for efficiently attaining them.
  • taft-hartley act — an act of the U.S. Congress (1947) that supersedes but continues most of the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and that, in addition, provides for an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices.
  • taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take the liberty — do sth without permission
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • territorial army — The Territorial Army is a British armed force whose members are not professional soldiers but train as soldiers in their spare time.
  • tertiary college — a college system incorporating the secondary school sixth form and vocational courses
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the early church — the Christian church in the centuries immediately following Christ's death
  • the eternal city — Rome
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the hitler youth — a Nazi paramilitary youth organization (1922-45)
  • the holy trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
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