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15-letter words containing y, a, h, t

  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • roentgenography — roentgenogram.
  • roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
  • saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
  • sahitya akademi — a body set up by the Government of India for cultivating literature in Indian languages and in English
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
  • security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
  • security threat — a threat to the security of a country
  • set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
  • seven-year itch — scabies.
  • sodium ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • 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.
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • 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.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
  • susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • tachyarrhythmia — an irregular and too-rapid heartbeat
  • take the mickey — mock
  • technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • tetraethyl lead — a colorless, oily, water-insoluble, poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5) 4 Pb, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • tetramethyllead — a colorless liquid, (CH 3) 4 Pb, insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and benzene, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • 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 holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
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