15-letter words containing y, s
- microscopically — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
- microseismicity — The state of being microseismic.
- microsporocytes — Plural form of microsporocyte.
- microsporophyll — a leaflike organ bearing microsporangia.
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
- military school — military academy.
- minidisc player — a device for playing minidiscs
- mirror symmetry — symmetry about a plane (mirror plane) that divides the object or system into two mutual mirror images
- miscellaneously — In a miscellaneous manner.
- miscue analysis — analysis of the errors a pupil makes while reading
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monochlamydeous — (of a flower) having a perianth of one whorl of members; not having a separate calyx and corolla
- monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
- monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
- monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- more's the pity — If you add more's the pity to a comment, you are expressing your disappointment or regret about something.
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
- morning prayers — early-morning act of religious worship
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- multical system — E-mail: Richard Snodgrass <[email protected]>.
- multispeciality — Alternative form of multispecialty.
- multitudinously — In a multitudinous way.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- myristicivorous — feeding on nutmeg
- mystery shopper — a person who is employed, often by the owners, to visit shops, hotels, etc, incognito, and assess the quality of the service offered
- nanocrystalline — Of, pertaining to, or composed of nanocrystals.
- nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
- natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
- nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
- necessary stool — close-stool.
- needless to say — of course, obviously
- net.personality — Someone who has made a name for him or herself on Usenet, through either longevity or attention-getting posts, but doesn't meet the other requirements of net.godhood.
- neurohypophyses — Plural form of neurohypophysis.
- neurohypophysis — See under pituitary gland.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuroplasticity — the capacity of the nervous system to develop new neuronal connections: research on neuroplasticity of the brain after injury.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- new jersey plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- night-sky light — the faint glow of the night sky, caused by such phenomena as airglow and zodiacal light.