14-letter words containing s, e, y
- correspondency — correspondence
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- country singer — a singer of country and western music
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- courtesy title — any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers
- cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- credit history — a record of how promptly a person pays back loans, credits, etc, over time
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-ply tire — bias-ply tire.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- crystal palace — a building of glass and iron designed by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. Erected in Hyde Park, London, it was moved to Sydenham (1852–53): destroyed by fire in 1936
- crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- crystallizable — That can be crystallized.
- currency snake — an exchange rate system that operated between various member countries of the EEC during the 1970s, in which exchange rates between the currencies of the participating states were only allowed to fluctuate within a restricted range
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- cyclooxygenase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins; their inhibition is the mode of action of aspirin and ibuprofen.
- cyclosilicates — Plural form of cyclosilicate.
- cylinder glass — a sheet of glass formed originally in the shape of a cylinder and then divided lengthwise and flattened.
- cylinder press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- cypress spurge — a perennial herb, Euphorbia cyparissias, of Eurasia, having small, greenish-yellow flowers in dense clusters.
- cytogeneticist — One who studies cytogenetics.
- dacryoadenitis — Inflammation of the lacrimal glands.
- daddy longlegs — A daddy longlegs is a flying insect with very long legs.
- daddy-longlegs — Also called harvestman. any of numerous spiderlike arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a compact rounded body and extremely long, slender legs.
- daguerreotypes — Plural form of daguerreotype.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decay constant — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delaney clause — an amendment to a 1958 Federal law, prohibiting the use of any food additive found to cause cancer in people or animals
- delayed speech — a speech disorder of children in which the levels of intelligibility, vocabulary, complexity of utterance, etc., are significantly below the levels considered standard for a particular age.
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
- deoxyadenosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to adenosine.
- deoxyguanosine — (biochemistry) A deoxyribonucleoside related to guanosine.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances