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14-letter words containing s, p, i, n, y

  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • styptic pencil — a pencil-shaped stick of a paste containing alum or a similar styptic agent, used to stanch the bleeding of minor cuts.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday painter — a nonprofessional painter, usually unschooled and generally painting during spare time.
  • supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superintensity — the quality of being extremely intense
  • superseniority — seniority that is granted or held without regard to age or service.
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • tripersonality — the state or condition of being tripersonal; existence in three persons, as the Godhead.
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
  • unionist party — (formerly, in Northern Ireland) the major Protestant political party, closely identified with union with Britain. It formed the Northern Ireland Government from 1920 to 1972
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unpropitiously — in an unfavourable or inauspicious manner
  • unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
  • unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
  • unspecifically — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
  • unsurprisingly — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
  • unsuspiciously — not suspiciously; in an unsuspicious manner
  • unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
  • with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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