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15-letter words containing a, c, s, e, o

  • stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
  • stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
  • stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • studio audience — spectators on a TV set
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
  • survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • 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.
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the ocean state — the US state of Rhode Island
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
  • to earn a crust — If you earn a crust, you earn enough money to live on, especially by doing work you would prefer not to do.
  • to lose contact — If you lose contact with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them.
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • training course — practical programme of study
  • transfer factor — a lymphocyte product that, when extracted from T cells of an individual with immunity to a particular antigen, can confer that immunity when administered to another individual of the same species.
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • uncanonicalness — the quality or condition of being uncanonical
  • uncompassionate — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • unconsentaneous — disagreeable or discordant
  • unconstrainable — unable to be confined
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
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