15-letter words containing d, i, a, s, t, e
- redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
- rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
- 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
- reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
- relational dbms — relational database
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- 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
- 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
- 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).
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- 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
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- scared shitless — terrified
- scatter diagram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
- self-infatuated — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- senile dementia — a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.
- serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
- silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
- simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
- single standard — a single set of principles or rules applying to everyone, as a single moral code applying to both men and women, especially in sexual behavior. Compare double standard.
- single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
- sinistrodextral — moving or extending from the left to the right.
- sinoatrial node — a small mass of tissue in the right atrium functioning as pacemaker of the heart by giving rise to the electric impulses that initiate heart contractions.
- sistine madonna — a Madonna painted by Raphael for the Church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, Italy.
- sixth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.