14-letter words containing s, o, y, a
- disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
- discretionally — At one's discretion.
- discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- disillusionary — of or relating to disillusion
- disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disputatiously — In a disputatious manner.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- donkey's years — a very long time; eons.
- doomsday clock — an image of a clockface representing the time remaining before the onset of a global catastrophe in terms of a number of minutes before midnight
- dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- end one's days — to pass the end of one's life
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
- eucalyptus oil — an essential oil derived from trees belonging to the Eucalyptus genus and used for pharmaceutical, fragrance and antiseptic purposes
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- eulogistically — In the form or manner of a eulogy; with praise.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- extensionality — extensional equality
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.