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15-letter words containing d, e, t, r, i, a

  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social democrat — a person who advocates a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium arsenite — a white or grayish-white, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaAsO 2 , used chiefly in arsenical soaps for hides, as an insecticide, and as a weed-killer.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
  • sodium stearate — Sodium stearate is a salt of stearic acid used as a surfactant (= a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid and allows it to foam) in order to aid the solubility of hydrophobic substances in oral medicines.
  • soldier's heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • somerset island — an island in the Arctic Ocean in Nunavut, Canada, NW of Baffin Island. 9594 sq. mi. (24,848 sq. km).
  • 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
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • street accident — a traffic accident
  • strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
  • 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.
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • 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
  • tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
  • 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
  • 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 daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • 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.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • thyroid extract — the powdered preparation made from the thyroid gland of certain animals, used to treat hypothyroidism
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
  • to hit the road — If you hit the road, you set out on a journey.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
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