15-letter words containing m, y, a
- smoky mountains — Great Smoky Mountains
- snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
- so much/so many — You use so much and so many when you are saying that there is a definite limit to something but you are not saying what this limit is.
- social dynamics — the study of social processes, especially social change.
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- 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.
- stalagmitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalagmites
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
- 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.
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- 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.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systems analyst — A systems analyst is someone whose job is to decide what computer equipment and software a company needs, and to provide it.
- tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
- take the mickey — mock
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- temperamentally — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
- tetramethyllead — a colorless liquid, (CH 3) 4 Pb, insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and benzene, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
- thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- theory of games — game theory.
- thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
- thymidylic acid — a nucleotide consisting of thymine, deoxyribose, and a phosphate group. It is a constituent of DNA
- to part company — If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.
- tocodynamometer — tokodynamometer.
- tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- trans-himalayan — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- tristram shandy — a novel (1759–67) by Laurence Sterne.
- trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
- tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.