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

  • superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
  • sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
  • sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
  • synthetic resin — any of a large class of complex organic liquids or solids formed from simpler molecules by condensation or polymerization, used esp. in making plastics
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tensor analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with the calculus of tensors, especially the study of properties that are unaffected by a change of coordinate system.
  • test ban treaty — a treaty which bans nations testing some or all types of nuclear weapons
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • 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.
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
  • tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • tychonic system — a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
  • ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unaesthetically — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unceremoniously — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • under secretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • under-secretary — UK ministerial position
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
  • university city — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
  • university park — a city in N Texas.
  • university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unquestioningly — in manner that accepts something without expressing doubt or uncertainty
  • unrealistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
  • valentine's day — February 14, observed in honor of St. Valentine as a day for the exchange of valentines and other tokens of affection.
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