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15-letter words containing d, i, s, f

  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • sodium fluoride — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.
  • soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • 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 in awe of — to respect and fear
  • stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • 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)
  • sulfanilic acid — a grayish-white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, the para form of C 6 H 7 NO 3 S, used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • 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.
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • tufted titmouse — a gray titmouse, Parus bicolor, of the eastern and midwestern U.S., having a crested head.
  • ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
  • undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
  • unsatisfiedness — the state of being unsatisfied
  • usman dan fodio — 1754–1817, African mystic and revolutionary leader, who created a Muslim state in Nigeria
  • west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
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