15-letter words containing a, d, p, r, e, s
- serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- sidereal period — the period of revolution of a body about another with respect to one or more distant stars
- speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- spraddle-legged — moving with or having the legs wide apart: a spraddle-legged walk.
- spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
- spread the word — make others aware
- spread-eagleism — boastfulness or bombast, especially in the display of patriotic or nationalistic pride in the U.S.; flag-waving.
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- step-and-repeat — noting or pertaining to a process by which successive photo-offset plates are produced automatically or semiautomatically with great precision: used especially in making plates for multicolor printing.
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- transportedness — the quality or state of being carried away with pleasure or rapture
- trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- unpractisedness — the quality or state of being unpractised
- upper east side — a section of the East Side of New York City, conventionally between 57th Street and 96th Street, known for its affluence.
- vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.