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18-letter words that end in y

  • run in sb's family — If a characteristic runs in someone's family, it often occurs in members of that family, in different generations.
  • running commentary — non-stop description of sth
  • rural municipality — any lightly settled area in Canada lacking a local elected government and administered directly by a provincial government.
  • saint george's day — April 23, celebrated in parts of the British Commonwealth in honor of the patron saint of Britain and especially in New Zealand as a bank holiday.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • saskatchewan party — (in Canada) a Saskatchewan political party formed by former members of the provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal Parties
  • schwarz inequality — Also called Cauchy's inequality. the theorem that the inner product of two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors.
  • science dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering terms in the life, earth, and physical sciences, such as the online Science Dictionary on Dictionary.com. A science dictionary includes many technical terms with precise, specialized meanings—terms not normally found in general dictionaries—making it an invaluable resource for students and professionals in scientific fields.
  • scottish secretary — the Secretary of State for Scotland, head of the Scotland Office, a UK government department with responsibility for some Scottish affairs
  • seagate technology — (company)   A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. They changed the name to Seagate Technology soon after to avoid confusion, and also to avoid friction with Xerox, which had since purchased Alan's earlier company, Shugart Associates. Address: 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA. Fax: +1 (408) 438 3320.
  • search-and-destroy — designed to find and destroy by bombing etc
  • secondary industry — manufacturing, services, etc.
  • secondary recovery — extraction of oil or natural gas under artificially induced pressure after the natural flow has ceased.
  • secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
  • self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • separation anxiety — the normal fear and apprehension expressed by infants when removed from their mothers or approached by strangers.
  • shugart technology — Seagate Technology
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • slow-motion replay — a showing again in slow motion of a sequence of action, esp of part of a sporting contest immediately after it happens
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • spare-part surgery — surgical replacement of defective or damaged organs by transplant or insertion of artificial devices
  • special relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
  • specific viscosity — a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid, expressed as the ratio of the absolute viscosity of the fluid to that of a reference fluid (usually water in the case of liquids)
  • spectrocolorimetry — the quantitative measure of colors by spectrophotometry.
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • state of emergency — If a government or other authority declares a state of emergency in an area, it introduces special measures such as increased powers for the police or army, usually because of civil disorder or because of a natural disaster such as an earthquake.
  • static electricity — a stationary electric charge built up on an insulating material.
  • statutory sick pay — the pay an employee is legally entitled to when sick
  • stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • street credibility — street cred.
  • structural geology — the branch of geology dealing with the structure and distribution of the rocks that make up the crust of the earth. Also called tectonics. Compare structure (def 7a).
  • subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • the fourth of july — a holiday in the United States, traditionally celebrated with fireworks: the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the same old story — the familiar or regular course of events
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • theater of cruelty — a form of surrealist theater originated by Antonin Artaud and emphasizing the cruelty of human existence by portraying sadistic acts and intense suffering.
  • theatre of cruelty — a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering, and evil, using gesture, movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language
  • thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
  • to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
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