15-letter words containing a, b, y, s
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- say one's beads — to pray with a rosary
- set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
- sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- 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.
- 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.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- 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.
- 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.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- surabaya strait — a narrow strait in Indonesia, separating E Java and Madura Island
- susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- test ban treaty — a treaty which bans nations testing some or all types of nuclear weapons
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- translatability — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit