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18-letter words containing d, e, t, r, s

  • service department — a repair shop
  • sex discrimination — the practice of treating male and female people unequally
  • sheltered workshop — a place of employment for persons with disabilities where their rights are protected and their needs are met.
  • shepherd satellite — a small moon orbiting near a planetary ring, whose gravitational pull helps confine the ring and the ring's extent.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • short-tailed shrew — a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • sildenafil citrate — a white crystalline powder, C 22 H 30 N 6 O 4 S, that temporarily normalizes erectile function of the penis by blocking an enzyme known to inhibit the production of a chemical that causes erections: used in the form of a pill to treat impotence.
  • sindbad the sailor — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments), a wealthy citizen of Baghdad who relates the adventures of his seven wonderful voyages.
  • smart battery data — (hardware, protocol)   (SBD) A method to monitor a rechargeable battery pack, initiated by Duracell and Intel. An special IC in the battery pack monitors the battery and reports information to the SMBus. This information might include: type, model number, manufacturer, characteristics, discharge rate, predicted remaining capacity, almost-discharged alarm so that the PC can shut down gracefully; temperature and voltage to provide safe fast-charging.
  • society of friends — a Christian denomination, founded in England c. 1650 by George Fox, that has no formal creed, liturgy, or priesthood and rejects violence in human relations, esp. warfare
  • sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
  • sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
  • soldier of fortune — a person who independently seeks pleasure, wealth, etc., through adventurous exploits.
  • soldier settlement — the allocation of Crown land for farming to ex-servicemen
  • solitary sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, of inland wetlands, having a brownish-gray, white-spotted back and whitish underparts.
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
  • sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • squinting modifier — a word or phrase that can modify either the words that precede it or those that follow, as frequently in the sentence Studying frequently is tedious.
  • st. andrew's cross — a low evergreen shrub, Ascyrum hypericoides, native to temperate and subtropical America, having flowers in clusters of three: often cultivated.
  • stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • stand-by passenger — someone who buys a (usually cheaper) ticket, if they are still available, on a plane just before it is about to leave rather than booking in advance
  • standard amenities — the sanitary facilities recommended for all dwellings by the housing law: a fixed bath or shower, wash-hand basin, and sink, all supplied with hot and cold water, and a flush toilet
  • standard deviation — a measure of dispersion in a frequency distribution, equal to the square root of the mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean of the distribution.
  • standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
  • stockholm syndrome — an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • street credibility — street cred.
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • strong derived set — the set of all strong accumulation points of a given set.
  • strontium monoxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • sturt's desert pea — the desert pea
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
  • super middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 168 pounds (75.6 kg), between middleweight and light heavyweight.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
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