15-letter words containing r, a, y, c
- security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- sharing economy — a system in which people rent, borrow, or share commodities, services, and resources owned by individuals, usually with the aid of online technology, in an effort to save money, cut costs, and reduce waste.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
- 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.
- socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- 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.
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- swiss army code — (programming, humour) Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
- 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.
- tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
- tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
- the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
- thyrocalcitonin — calcitonin
- thyroid extract — the powdered preparation made from the thyroid gland of certain animals, used to treat hypothyroidism
- to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
- to part company — If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.
- to the contrary — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
- tocodynamometer — tokodynamometer.
- trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
- training agency — (in Britain, formerly) an organization providing training and retraining for adult workers
- transactionally — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube