14-letter words containing s, o, d, y
- read-only user — (jargon) Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
- royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
- sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
- safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- secondary cell — storage cell.
- secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
- secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- seeing eye dog — a dog that has been specially trained to lead or guide a blind person in walking about.
- seeing-eye dog — blind person's guide dog
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- sit-down money — social security benefits
- sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
- skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
- statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
- street orderly — street cleaner.
- strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
- tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
- tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
- tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.