15-letter words containing s, t, a, y, c
- pluralistically — from a pluralistic point of view
- polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
- postapocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
- press secretary — a person officially responsible for press and public relations for a prominent figure or organization and who often holds press conferences to answer journalists' questions.
- presynaptically — in a presynaptic manner
- prismatic layer — the middle layer of the shell of certain mollusks, consisting chiefly of crystals of calcium carbonate.
- procrastinatory — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pyrocrystalline — crystallized from a molten magma or highly heated solution.
- resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
- ritualistically — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- salem secretary — a tall cabinet having a recessed upper part fitted with drawers and shelves and a lower part with doors and a section falling or pulling out to serve as a writing surface.
- san jacinto day — a legal holiday observed in Texas on April 21.
- sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
- socialist party — a U.S. political party advocating socialism, formed about 1900 chiefly by former members of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Labor Party.
- society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
- socioculturally — from a sociocultural point of view
- solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- stalactitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalactites
- stalagmitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalagmites