14-letter words containing d, i, s, m, o, n
- precision-made — made to precise specifications
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
- rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- school of mind — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the original unity of all things, to be grasped through the perfect attainment of jen.
- sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
- semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- serious-minded — characterized by seriousness of intention, purpose, thought, etc.; earnest.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- sit-down money — social security benefits
- slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
- slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- sodium nitrate — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, NaNO 3 , that occurs naturally as soda niter: used in fertilizers, explosives, and glass, and as a color fixative in processed meats.
- sodium nitrite — Chemistry. a yellowish or white crystalline compound, NaNO 2 , soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and ether: used in the manufacture of dyes and as a color fixative.
- solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- traditionalism — adherence to tradition as authority, especially in matters of religion.
- transom window — a window divided by a transom.
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- unidimensional — one-dimensional.
- wild monkshood — a plant, Aconitum uncinatum, of the buttercup family, native to the eastern central U.S., having roundish leaves and hooded, blue flowers, growing in rich, moist soil.
- young marrieds — young married people