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15-letter words containing d, e, t, s

  • quasi-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • question period — a period of time set aside each day for members of parliament to question government ministers
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • qurnet es sauda — a mountain in N Lebanon, in the Lebanon Mountains: highest point in Lebanon. 10,131 feet (3090 meters).
  • radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
  • radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
  • radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
  • radiosensitizer — a substance, as a drug, that enhances the sensitivity of tissues or cells to radiation therapy.
  • raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • re-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • recollectedness — the state or quality of being recollected
  • reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • red spider mite — a plant-feeding mite, Panonychus ulmi, of the family Tetranychidae, which is a serious orchard pest
  • redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • registered port — (networking)   Any TCP or UDP port with a number in the range 1025 to 65535 (i.e. not a well-known port) that is registered with IANA.
  • registered post — a Post Office service by which compensation is paid for loss or damage to mail for which a registration fee has been paid
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • reported speech — indirect quotation
  • residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
  • restricted area — out of bounds to military personnel
  • restricted code — a style of language use associated with informal situations, characterized by linguistic predictability and by its dependence on the external context and on the shared knowledge and experience of the participants for conveying meaning. Compare code (def 11b), elaborated code.
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rite de passage — rite of passage.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • ruddy turnstone — a common shorebird, Arenaria interpres, of the New and Old World arctic, wintering south to southern South America and Australia and having striking reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
  • rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
  • saddle-stitched — having a binding in which the sections of a publication are inserted inside each other and secured through the middle fold with thread, or wire staples
  • sahitya akademi — a body set up by the Government of India for cultivating literature in Indian languages and in English
  • salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
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