14-letter words containing s, o, y, m
- compossibility — the possibility of coexisting
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
- 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-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
- demythologised — Simple past tense and past participle of demythologise.
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- dimensionality — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dio chrysostom — 2nd century ad, Greek orator and philosopher
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- 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.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- 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
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- 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
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
- gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
- 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.
- histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- home secretary — the secretary of state for the Home Office.
- honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.