16-letter words containing s, a, b, y
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
- general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- go/be easy on sb — If you tell someone to go easy on, or be easy on, a particular person, you are telling them not to punish or treat that person very severely.
- hamadryas baboon — a baboon, Papio (Comopithecus) hamadryas, of Ethiopia, the male of which has a mantle of long, dark hair about the head and shoulders: held sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hendecasyllables — Plural form of hendecasyllable.
- himalayan balsam — a tall flowering plant, Impatiens glandulifera, brought from Asia to Europe as a garden plant but now growing wild in Europe, especially on river banks. It is considered invasive and environmentally damaging.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- instability line — a nonfrontal line of convective activity in the atmosphere, usually several hundred miles long but of relatively brief duration.
- insubstantiality — not substantial or real; lacking substance: an insubstantial world of dreams.
- isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
- krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
- library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
- monosyllabically — In single syllables.
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- narragansett bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in E Rhode Island. 28 miles (45 km) long.
- new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
- not by any means — in no way, by no method
- observationality — The property of being observational.
- paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
- personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
- poor boy sweater — a snug-fitting, pullover sweater with ribbing on both the body and sleeves, worn by girls and women.
- psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- raise an eyebrow — If something causes you to raise an eyebrow or to raise your eyebrows, it causes you to feel surprised or disapproving.
- raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
- raster subsystem — (graphics) The part of a graphics system concerned with an image after it has been transformed and scaled to screen coordinates. It includes scan conversion and display.
- research library — a general or specialized library that collects materials for use in intensive research projects.
- reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
- rhabdomyosarcoma — a malignant tumor made up of striated muscle tissue.
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.