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14-letter words containing y, p

  • supplementally — supplementary.
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • support system — people who provide support: a family support system to help a troubled youth.
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • supramaxillary — of or relating to the upper jaw
  • surprise party — a party or celebration planned for someone as a surprise.
  • susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • sycamore maple — a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, of Europe and western Asia, having gray bark and opposite, lobed leaves: grown as a shade tree.
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • symptomatology — the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • synchronoscope — synchroscope.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • 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).
  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • tachyphylactic — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
  • tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • telepathically — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • teletypesetter — a keyboard device whose output can either be punched tape, which can be used directly to operate a line-casting machine, or be transmitted by cable or wire to operate such a machine indirectly
  • teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
  • temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
  • terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
  • the cryptozoic — the Cryptozoic era
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the top thirty — the thirty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
  • the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
  • threepenny bit — a twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
  • to play truant — If a pupil plays truant, he or she stays away from school without permission.
  • topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
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