14-letter words containing s, y, n
- easy-listening — Also called easy listening. popular music having comparatively conventional, melodic qualities and hence having broad commercial appeal.
- effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
- electrosensory — Of or pertaining to the ability of a biological organism to perceive electrical impulses.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
- emergency stop — a sudden application of the brakes in a car, such as the driver would need to carry out in an emergency
- enantiostylous — in the manner of enantiostyly
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- encyclopedists — Plural form of encyclopedist.
- end one's days — to pass the end of one's life
- endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- english system — the foot-pound-second system of measurement
- enterprisingly — In an enterprising manner.
- essay question — an examination question that requires an answer in the form of an essay
- eugeosynclinal — of or relating to a eugeosyncline
- every so often — now and again
- everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
- exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- extensionality — extensional equality
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
- ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
- glycogenolysis — (biochemistry) The production of glucose-1-phosphate by splitting a glucose monomer from glycogen using inorganic phosphate.