15-letter words containing sy
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- symptomological — relating to symptomology
- synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
- syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
- synthetic resin — any of a large class of complex organic liquids or solids formed from simpler molecules by condensation or polymerization, used esp. in making plastics
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systems analyst — A systems analyst is someone whose job is to decide what computer equipment and software a company needs, and to provide it.
- toxic psychosis — a psychosis resulting from the toxic effect of chemicals, drugs, or certain intrinsic metabolic states.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
- tychonic system — a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
- voice synthesis — the artificial production of the human voice
- x window system — (operating system, graphics) A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications. X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86.