15-letter words containing s, i, l, y, d
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- loyalty islands — a group of coral islands in the S Pacific belonging to the French territory of New Caledonia. 761 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km).
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- nondisciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- pay-and-display — denoting a car-parking system in which a motorist buys a permit to park for a specified period from a coin-operated machine and displays the permit on or near the windscreen of his or her car so that it can be seen by a parking attendant
- platitudinously — in a platitudinal manner
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudoparalysis — the inability to move a part of the body owing to factors, as pain, other than those causing actual paralysis.
- 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.
- psyllid yellows — a viral disease transmitted by the potato psyllid, causing the young leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers to curl and turn yellow or purplish.
- pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- school holidays — the period during which schools are closed - in the summer, at Christmas and Easter, and at other times of the year
- self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- sidesplittingly — in a side-splitting manner
- single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
- social dynamics — the study of social processes, especially social change.
- society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
- sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
- spratly islands — a widely-scattered group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the S South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims wholly or in part by six neighbouring nations
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.