15-letter words containing d, e, t, r, s
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- 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.
- spread the word — make others aware
- 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.
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- 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
- stand to reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- standard bearer — military: person who carries a flag
- 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
- standard-bearer — an officer or soldier of an army or military unit who bears a standard.
- 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.
- star-nosed mole — a North American mole, Condylura cristata, having a starlike ring of fleshy processes around the end of the snout.
- start of header — (character) (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- 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.
- steroidogenesis — the formation of steroids, as by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- stop-loss order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
- 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.
- 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)
- stranger danger — the potential or perceived risk posed by unknown people to children and about which it may be advisable to warn them
- 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
- strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- 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.
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- 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.
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
- 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.
- 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