14-letter words containing o, y, s, t
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geohydrologist — a person who studies geohydrology
- go easy on sth — If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
- henry st. john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- heterokaryosis — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- histologically — In an histological manner.
- histopathology — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- historiography — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.
- holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
- house of study — Beth Midrash.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hydrocortisone — Biochemistry. a steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 5 , of the adrenal cortex, active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydroscopicity — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hygroscopicity — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
- hyperextension — the extension of a part of the body beyond normal limits.
- hyperkeratosis — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.