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16-letter words containing l, y, s, e, r

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
  • the-card-players — a painting (1892) by Paul Cézanne.
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • transcendentally — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
  • transcrystalline — situated within or passing through the crystals of a substance.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
  • videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
  • vinylidene resin — any synthetic resin in which the basic structure consists of the H2C:CR2 group, where R usually is a halogen
  • visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
  • voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
  • voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
  • welfare payments — government benefits
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • ziegler catalyst — any of a group of catalysts, such as titanium trichloride (TiCl3) and aluminium alkyl (Al(CH3)3), that produce stereospecific polymers
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