15-letter words containing s, y, t, o
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
- st. cyr-l'ecole — a town in N France, W of Versailles: military academy.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
- 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
- substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- 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.
- susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- syllogistically — of or relating to a syllogism.
- 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.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- 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.
- 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
- system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- 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.