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14-letter words containing s, t, e, a, d, y

  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
  • holiday resort — self-contained vacation spot
  • hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • idealistically — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
  • incandescently — (of light) produced by incandescence.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • insecticidally — in an insecticidal manner
  • lady's-thistle — a composite plant, Silybum marianum, of the Mediterranean region, having glossy, spiny leaves and purplish-red flower heads.
  • lady's-tresses — any orchid of the genus Spiranthes, having spikes of small flowers.
  • laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • paper industry — the industry of manufacturing and selling paper
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • predesignatory — in the terminology of Sir William Hamilton, (of a sign) affixed to a proposition or term to indicate quantity
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • stanley dancerStanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • steely-hearted — hard-hearted
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
  • 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.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
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