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14-letter words containing t, y, s, o

  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
  • synthesization — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • systems theory — an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • take one's way — to go on a journey; travel
  • take years off — to make (someone) feel or look much younger
  • tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • that is to say — in other words
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
  • the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • thyrotoxicosis — Graves' disease.
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • torrens system — (in Australia, England, Canada, certain states of the U.S., etc.) a system of registration of land titles in which the titles are settled consequent to establishment and validation by a legal proceeding, designed chiefly to make title insurance unnecessary and to facilitate transfers.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • trichophytosis — a skin infection caused by a trichophyton
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • try one's luck — to attempt something that is uncertain
  • two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
  • ultra-royalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
  • unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
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