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15-letter words containing t, o, p, y

  • spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • 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.
  • system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • 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
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
  • to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
  • to jump for joy — If you say that someone is jumping for joy, you mean that they are very pleased or happy about something.
  • to part company — If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.
  • to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • toxic psychosis — a psychosis resulting from the toxic effect of chemicals, drugs, or certain intrinsic metabolic states.
  • trading company — a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company
  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
  • turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
  • turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
  • typographically — of or relating to typography.
  • 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.
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • unary operation — an operation in a mathematical system by which one element is used to yield a single result, as squaring or taking the square root.
  • uncomplaisantly — in an uncomplaisant manner
  • uncomplementary — forming a complement; completing.
  • uncomplimentary — of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark.
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • unpatriotically — in a manner that is not enthusiastically supporting one's country and its ways of life
  • unpretentiously — without pretension
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