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15-letter words containing c, e, d

  • sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • stack the cards — to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • standard candle — a unit of luminous intensity; the candela: not in scientific usage because of possible confusion with a former unit (international candle)
  • standard clause — a clause which is inserted as standard into certain types of contracts or agreements
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
  • state education — education provided by the state; education which is not private
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • street accident — a traffic accident
  • student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
  • 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
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
  • succes d'estime — success won by reason of merit and critical respect rather than by popularity.
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • suicide attempt — bid to kill oneself
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • suicide squeeze — squeeze play (def 1a).
  • summa cum laude — with highest praise: used in diplomas to grant the highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • 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
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
  • the common good — If you do something for the common good, you do it for the benefit or advantage of everyone.
  • 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 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 die is cast — You can say that the die is cast to draw attention to the importance of an event or decision which is going to affect your future and which cannot be changed or avoided.
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
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