15-letter words containing s, y, n, f
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- 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.
- self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
- self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
- yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation