15-letter words containing p, a, s, y
- sanitary napkin — a pad of absorbent material, as cotton, worn by women during menstruation to absorb the uterine flow.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- say one's piece — If you say your piece, you say everything you want to say about a particular matter without being interrupted, although people may be wanting to express opposing views.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- septentrionally — northwards; in the direction of the north
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- simple majority — less than half of the total votes cast but more than the minimum required to win, as when there are more than two candidates or choices.
- sinorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the paranasal sinuses and the respiratory tract.
- 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
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- 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.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- 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
- staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- super-sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
- thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
- trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
- turk's-cap lily — either of two lilies, Lilum martagon or L. superbum, having nodding flowers with the perianth segments rolled backward.
- type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).