14-letter words containing c, r, o, s, d
- sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
- sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
- sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- schoolchildren — a child attending school.
- scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- screen goddess — a film actress who is adored or idealized, esp by men
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- secondary cell — storage cell.
- secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
- secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
- serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
- service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
- slate-coloured — like slate in colour
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- smoke detector — an electronic fire alarm that is activated by the presence of smoke.
- social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
- sock suspender — garter (def 1).
- sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
- solar calendar — a calendar whose dates are based on the position of the earth and its proximity to the sun
- soldier orchid — a European orchid, Orchis militaris, having pale purple flowers with a four-lobed lower lip
- solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
- spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
- stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
- standard score — the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample in units of standard deviation.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.