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14-letter words containing n, y, s, e

  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • secure tenancy — the letting of a dwelling by a nonprivate landlord, usually a local council or housing association, under an agreement that allows security of tenure, subletting, improvements made to the property by the tenant without consequent rent increase, and the right to buy the dwelling at a discount after three years' occupancy
  • seeing eye dog — a dog that has been specially trained to lead or guide a blind person in walking about.
  • seeing-eye dog — blind person's guide dog
  • self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • seniority rule — the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest.
  • sensory cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with receiving and interpreting sensory information from various parts of the body.
  • sensory neuron — a nerve cell that conducts impulses from a sense organ to the central nervous system.
  • sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • 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.
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
  • sit-down money — social security benefits
  • sitting pretty — (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
  • 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
  • snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
  • sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
  • spiny anteater — echidna.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
  • state attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
  • stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
  • stay-in strike — sit-down strike.
  • steel industry — production of steel
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
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