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15-letter words containing a, n, d

  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • 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.
  • stranger danger — the potential or perceived risk posed by unknown people to children and about which it may be advisable to warn them
  • street accident — a traffic accident
  • student teacher — a student who is studying to be a teacher and who, as part of the training, observes classroom instruction or does closely supervised teaching in an elementary or secondary school.
  • studio audience — spectators on a TV set
  • sturm und drang — a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • sulfanilic acid — a grayish-white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, the para form of C 6 H 7 NO 3 S, used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • 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 density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • surrender value — cash value.
  • sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
  • swellheadedness — the fact or state of being conceited
  • 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 down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • tank foundation — A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support the weight of oil tanks and contain spillage.
  • tar and feather — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
  • tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
  • tenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing to the states and the people those rights that are not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • thiocyanic acid — an unstable acid, HSCN, known chiefly in the form of its salts.
  • third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thought reading — mind reading.
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