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15-letter words containing y, s

  • 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.
  • solipsistically — in a solipsistic manner
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • 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.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
  • south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • spill your guts — If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • spratly islands — a widely-scattered group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the S South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims wholly or in part by six neighbouring nations
  • squirrel monkey — either of two small, long-tailed monkeys, Saimiri oerstedii of Central America and S. sciureus of South America, having a small white face with black muzzle and gold, brown, or greenish fur: S. oerstedii is endangered.
  • st. cyr-l'ecole — a town in N France, W of Versailles: military academy.
  • stalactitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalactites
  • stalagmitically — in a way that relates to, consists of, or is like stalagmites
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • starting salary — an employee's initial rate of pay
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
  • stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
  • stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
  • stony meteorite — any of various meteorites composed mainly of rock-forming silicates, especially olivine, plagioclase, and pyroxene, and classified as achondrites or chondrites.
  • storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
  • strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
  • street ministry — the vocation of a church worker, clergyman, or the like who frequents public places in an attempt to help runaways, prostitutes, or others on the margins of society.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
  • strike it lucky — to have some good luck
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
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