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15-letter words containing s, c, y, l

  • physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • physiologically — of or relating to physiology.
  • plastic surgery — the branch of surgery dealing with the repair or replacement of malformed, injured, or lost organs or tissues of the body, chiefly by the transplant of living tissues.
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
  • plunket society — the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
  • pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
  • presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
  • prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
  • psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • psychobiologist — 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.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
  • psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
  • publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
  • pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
  • recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
  • retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
  • ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • royal enclosure — at the Royal Ascot horse-race meeting, an area of Ascot racecourse which is reserved for the Royal Family, members, and their guests
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
  • rural sociology — the sociological study of life in rural areas and the effects of ruralization.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • salary increase — an increase in the salary or pay given to an employee
  • salem secretary — a tall cabinet having a recessed upper part fitted with drawers and shelves and a lower part with doors and a section falling or pulling out to serve as a writing surface.
  • salicylaldehyde — an oily, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 6 O 2 , having an almondlike odor: used chiefly in perfumery and in the synthesis of coumarin.
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
  • school holidays — the period during which schools are closed - in the summer, at Christmas and Easter, and at other times of the year
  • schoolboy crush — an infatuation that a young boy has, usually for an older woman such as a teacher or an actress, which is seen as superficial and unlikely to last for long
  • secondary color — a color, as orange, green, or violet, produced by mixing two primary colors.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
  • semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
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