15-letter words containing d, e, t, s
- 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 council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
- 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.
- students' union — The students' union is the students' organization in a university or college which organizes leisure activities, provides welfare services, and represents students' political interests.
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- studio audience — spectators on a TV set
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
- succes d'estime — success won by reason of merit and critical respect rather than by popularity.
- suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
- suicide attempt — bid to kill oneself
- 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.
- sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
- 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
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- 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.
- tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
- tendentiousness — having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
- 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 classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
- 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 desert rats — nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division during WWII
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the die is cast — You can say that the die is cast to draw attention to the importance of an event or decision which is going to affect your future and which cannot be changed or avoided.
- 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 midas touch — ability to make money
- the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- the second form — the second year of secondary school
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at