14-letter words containing y, p, s
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- ichthyophagist — a person who eats or subsists on fish.
- ichthyophagous — the practice of eating or subsisting on fish.
- imparisyllabic — (of a noun) not composed of the same number of syllables in all of its inflected forms, as Latin corpus, corporis.
- impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
- implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- impressibility — The quality of being impressible.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in a pig's eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- inauspiciously — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- incomes policy — a government policy to curb inflation that relies on voluntary compliance rather than on mandatory wage, price, or profit controls.
- inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
- inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
- inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- instant replay — Also called, British, action replay. Television. the recording and immediate rebroadcasting of a segment of a live television broadcast, especially of a sports event: an instant replay of the touchdown pass. a segment recorded and immediately rebroadcast.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intempestively — in an intempestive manner
- intempestivity — the state or quality of being intempestive
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- isentropically — in an isentropic manner
- isocyano group — the univalent group −NC.
- isomorphically — In an isomorphic manner.
- issue a policy — If an insurer issues a policy, they create an insurance policy and provide it to a customer.
- japanese holly — an evergreen shrub, Ilex crenata, of Japan, having black fruit and box-shaped foliage, widely grown as an ornamental.
- keynote speech — opening address at a conference
- kyphoscoliosis — a condition in which the spinal column is convex both backward and sideways.
- lady's-slipper — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, the flowers of which have a protruding petal somewhat resembling a slipper: all species are reduced in numbers, some greatly.
- laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
- late-type star — any star with a surface temperature below that of the sun, of spectral type K, M, C, or S
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
- madhya pradesh — a state in central India. 119,016 sq. mi. (308,252 sq. km). Capital: Bhopal.
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- malacophyllous — (of plants living in dry regions) having fleshy leaves in which water is stored
- megascopically — macroscopically
- megasporophyll — a sporophyll producing megasporangia only.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
- metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
- metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
- metempsychosis — the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
- microphysicist — a physicist who specializes in microphysics
- microsporocyte — one of the mother cells that produce four microspores by meiosis.