14-letter words containing s, y, n, t, h
- shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
- shifty-looking — having the appearance of being dishonest
- shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- south tyneside — a unitary authority of NE England, in Tyne and Wear. Pop: 151 700 (2003 est). Area: 64 sq km (25 sq miles)
- southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
- spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
- st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
- stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
- sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- synthesization — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
- syrian hamster — golden hamster.
- there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
- thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
- 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.
- thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- tyrrhenian sea — a part of the Mediterranean, bounded by W Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
- un-synthesized — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.