14-letter words containing s, m, e, l, y
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- h.g.j. moseley — Henry Gwyn Jeffreys [gwin] /gwɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1915, English physicist: pioneer in x-ray spectroscopy.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
- impressibility — The quality of being impressible.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- incomes policy — a government policy to curb inflation that relies on voluntary compliance rather than on mandatory wage, price, or profit controls.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- intempestively — in an intempestive manner
- lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- lateral system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to the side of a channel they occupy and their relative position along that side.
- leiomyosarcoma — (pathology) A cancerous tumor of smooth muscle.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- mean solar day — day (def 3a).
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- meretriciously — In a meretricious manner.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metalloenzymes — Plural form of metalloenzyme.
- metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
- metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
- metastatically — In a metastatic manner.
- metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
- modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small
- molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- monocotyledons — Plural form of monocotyledon.
- monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
- moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
- mos technology — (company) A microprocessor design company started by some ex-Motorola designers, shortly after the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 appeared, in about 1975. MOS Technology introduced the 650x series, based on the Motorola 6800 design, though they were not exact clones for legal reasons. The design goal was a low-cost (smaler chip) design, realized by simplifying the decoder stage. There were no instructions with the value xxxxxx11, reducing the 1-of-4 decoder to a single NAND gate. Instructions with the value xxxxxx11 actually executed two instructions in paralell, some of them useful. The 6501 was pin-compatible with the 6800 for easier market penetration. The 650x-series had an on-chip clock oscillator while the 651x-series had none. The 6510 was used in the Commodore 64, released September 1981 and MOS made almost all the ICs for Commodore's pocket calculators. The PET was an idea of the of the 6500 developers. It was completly developed by MOS, but was manufactured and marketed by Commodore. By the time the it was ready for production (and Commodore had cancelled all orders) MOS had been taken over by Rockwell (Commodore's parent company). Just at this time the 6522 (VIA) was finished, but the data sheet for it was not and its developers had left MOS. For years, Rockwell didn't know in detail how the VIA worked.
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- multispecialty — (US) Exhibiting or possessing multiple specialties (especially medical specialties).
- museologically — In a museological manner.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- mutual society — co-operative organization