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14-letter words containing y, s

  • apocalypticism — the belief in apocalyptic prophecy
  • apocryphalness — the quality of being apocryphal
  • aposematically — in an aposematic manner
  • apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • arctic monkeys — British rock group (formed 2002): comprising Alex Turner (born 1986; vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (born 1985, guitar), Matt Helders (born 1986, drums, vocals) and Nick O'Malley (born 1985, bass guitar); their albums include Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), and AM (2013)
  • arthrogryposis — (countable, pathology) The permanent fixation of a joint in a contracted position.
  • as you like it — a comedy (1599?) by Shakespeare.
  • assembly plant — An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories.
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • assembly rooms — a set of rooms used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
  • assemblymember — A person who serves as a member of an assembly.
  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • assimilability — the capacity to be assimilated or made similar
  • assisted dying — the suicide of a person afflicted by an incurable disease, using a lethal dose of drugs provided by a physician for this purpose
  • astigmatoscopy — examination by means of an astigmatoscope.
  • astrochemistry — the study of the chemistry of celestial bodies and space, esp by means of spectroscopy
  • astrolithology — The science of aerolites.
  • astrologically — In an astrological manner.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • astrophysicist — An astrophysicist is someone who studies astrophysics.
  • asymmetrically — not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry: Most faces are asymmetric.
  • asymptotically — of or relating to an asymptote.
  • asynchronicity — (uncountable) The state of being asynchronous.
  • asynchronistic — Not synchronistic.
  • asynchronously — In an asynchronous manner.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • atomic physics — the branch of physics concerned with the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei
  • auld lang syne — Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song about friendship that is traditionally sung as clocks strike midnight on New Year's Eve.
  • b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
  • baby blue-eyes — a native Calif. wildflower (Nemophila menziesii) of the waterleaf family with bell-shaped flowers
  • baby-blue-eyes — any of several plants of the genus Nemophila, of western North America, especially N. menziesii, a low-growing plant having blue, white-centered flowers.
  • barbary states — semi-independent Turkish provinces along the coast of N Africa (16th-19th cent.); Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, & Morocco
  • baroja y nessi — Pío [pee-oh;; Spanish pee-aw] /ˈpi oʊ;; Spanish ˈpi ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1956, Spanish novelist.
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bay psalm book — a translation of the Psalms by John Eliot and others: the first book published (1640) in America.
  • bayes' theorem — the fundamental result which expresses the conditional probability P(E/A) of an event E given an event A as P(A/E).P(E)/P(A); more generally, where En is one of a set of values Ei which partition the sample space, P(En/A) = P(A/En)P(En)/Σ P(A/Ei)P(Ei). This enables prior estimates of probability to be continually revised in the light of observations
  • bayonet socket — a socket for a bayonet fitting
  • beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
  • becquerel rays — rays given off by radioactive substances
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • bet your boots — to be certain; rely on it
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • beyond dispute — not open to dispute or question; settled
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