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15-letter words containing s, y, r, o

  • stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • stony meteorite — any of various meteorites composed mainly of rock-forming silicates, especially olivine, plagioclase, and pyroxene, and classified as achondrites or chondrites.
  • storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
  • system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
  • taylor's series — an infinite sum giving the value of a function f(z) in the neighbourhood of a point a in terms of the derivatives of the function evaluated at a. Under certain conditions, the series has the form f(z) = f(a) + [f′(a)(z – a)]/1! + [f″(a)(z – a)2]/2! + …
  • tensor analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with the calculus of tensors, especially the study of properties that are unaffected by a change of coordinate system.
  • tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
  • to do your best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
  • transactionally — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • translationally — in a manner which uses translation
  • transnationally — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
  • traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • trust territory — a territory under the administrative control of a country designated by the United Nations.
  • trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
  • turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
  • tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
  • tyrwhitt-wilson — Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners [bur-nerz] /ˈbɜr nərz/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, English composer, painter, and author.
  • ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
  • ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
  • un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
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