15-letter words containing m, y, r, c
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
- sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
- sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
- small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- 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.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
- to part company — If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.
- tocodynamometer — tokodynamometer.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
- uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
- ungrammatically — in an ungrammatical manner
- valency grammar — a system of linguistic syntax, conceived by analogy with chemical valency, according to which verbs have valencies dependent on the number of noun phrases with which they combine
- varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
- vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.