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16-letter words containing t, o, y, n

  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • sony playstation — Playstation
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • start-up company — new business
  • state's attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
  • stationary front — a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
  • stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
  • stationary point — a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection
  • stationary state — any of several energy states an atom may occupy without emitting electromagnetic radiation.
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • synchrocyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the holy trinity — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
  • the honor system — a reliance on people to behave properly without supervision
  • the human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the one and only — incomparable and unique
  • the roaring days — the period of the Australian goldrushes
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
  • thionyl chloride — a clear, pale yellow or red, fuming, corrosive liquid, SOCl 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
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