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16-letter words containing s, t, a, e, l, y

  • display terminal — Visual Display Unit
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • ecclesiastically — of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • eschatologically — In an eschatological manner.
  • ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
  • evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
  • exhaust analysis — An exhaust analysis is an examination of the constituents of an engine's gases, vapors, and particulates.
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • henley-on-thames — a city in SE Oxfordshire, in S England: annual rowing regatta.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperperistalsis — the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, especially the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • instability line — a nonfrontal line of convective activity in the atmosphere, usually several hundred miles long but of relatively brief duration.
  • intercrystalline — situated or passing between the crystals of a substance.
  • isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
  • it is early days — Early means near the beginning of something such as a piece of work or a process.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • least flycatcher — a small flycatcher, Empidonax minimus, of eastern North America.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • literalistically — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
  • lonely hearts ad — an advertisement placed by someone who is trying to find a lover or a friend
  • lump sum payment — money: one-off payment
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