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14-letter words containing n, a, s, i, r, y

  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
  • sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
  • spiny anteater — echidna.
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • stay-in strike — sit-down strike.
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • transit system — public transport service
  • transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
  • transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • transsexuality — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • treinta y tres — a city in E Uruguay.
  • trinity sunday — the Sunday after Pentecost, observed as a festival in honor of the Trinity.
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
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