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15-letter words containing s, a, r, o, y, n

  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
  • natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
  • nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
  • necessary stool — close-stool.
  • net.personality — Someone who has made a name for him or herself on Usenet, through either longevity or attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of net.godhood.
  • neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • non-crystalline — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
  • noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
  • nonstationarity — The condition of being nonstationary.
  • normally-closed — Normally-closed switch contacts are in a closed state at rest.
  • north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • not necessarily — If you reply 'Not necessarily', you mean that what has just been said or suggested may not be true.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • orangeman's day — the 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • orangemen's day — July 12, an annual celebration in Northern Ireland and certain cities having a large Irish section, especially Liverpool, to mark both the victory of William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, and the Battle of Augbrim, July 12, 1690.
  • ordinary seaman — a seaman insufficiently skilled to be classified as an able-bodied seaman. Abbreviation: O.D., O.S., o.s.
  • ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • oscars ceremony — a formal annual event in the United States in which small gold statuettes are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in films
  • pay as you earn — a method of paying tax in which the tax is taken off your wages before they are paid to you
  • personal injury — injury to an individual
  • phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • propositionally — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • query expansion — (information science)   Adding search terms to a user's search. Query expansion is the process of a search engine adding search terms to a user's weighted search. The intent is to improve precision and/or recall. The additional terms may be taken from a thesaurus. For example a search for "car" may be expanded to: car cars auto autos automobile automobiles. The additional terms may also be taken from documents that the user has specified as being relevant; this is the basis for the "more like this" feature of some search engines. The extra terms can have positive or negative weights.
  • radar astronomy — the branch of astronomy that uses radar to map the surfaces of planetary bodies, as the moon and Venus, and to determine periods of rotation.
  • radio astronomy — the branch of astronomy that utilizes extraterrestrial radiation in radio wavelengths rather than visible light for the study of the universe.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • railway station — train stop, railroad station
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • rhyme or reason — If something happens or is done without rhyme or reason, there seems to be no logical reason for it to happen or be done.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
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