15-letter words containing n, y, s, t, a
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- smoky mountains — Great Smoky Mountains
- snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
- society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- spratly islands — a widely-scattered group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the S South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims wholly or in part by six neighbouring nations
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- starting salary — an employee's initial rate of pay
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
- 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.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- 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.
- 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.
- thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- 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).
- transactionally — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- translatability — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- translationally — in a manner which uses translation
- transnationally — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- tristram shandy — a novel (1759–67) by Laurence Sterne.
- trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- 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
- unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner