15-letter words containing y, a, l, e, h, s
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- in the old days — a long time ago
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- kaleyard school — a group of writers who depicted the sentimental and homely aspects of life in the Scottish Lowlands from about 1880 to 1914. The best known contributor to the school was J. M. Barrie
- kinesthetically — In a kinesthetic way, or in terms of kinesthetics.
- laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
- look-say method — a method of teaching beginners to read by memorizing and recognizing whole words, rather than by associating letters with sounds
- lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
- mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- physical change — a usually reversible change in the physical properties of a substance, as size or shape: Freezing a liquid is a physical change.
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- salicylaldehyde — an oily, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 6 O 2 , having an almondlike odor: used chiefly in perfumery and in the synthesis of coumarin.
- 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.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- single-handedly — in a single-handed manner; single-handed.
- 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.
- 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
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer