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19-letter words containing d, o, l, t, s

  • saddle-billed stork — a large stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, of West Africa, having a white and black body and a long, red and black bill.
  • santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
  • school of the squad — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • seasonal adjustment — an adjustment that removes the seasonal component of statistics
  • secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • self-administration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
  • self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • sell down the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
  • semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
  • semipalmated plover — a New World plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, having a black ring around the chest and semipalmate feet, inhabiting beaches and salt marshes.
  • senatorial district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state of the U.S. is divided, each electing one member to the state senate.
  • sessional indemnity — the remuneration paid to a member of the Canadian parliament.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • sharp-tailed grouse — a grouse, Pedioecetes phasianellus, of prairies and open forests of western North America, similar in size to the prairie chicken but with a more pointed tail.
  • sheet flood erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • single edge contact — (hardware)   (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
  • slate-colored junco — the eastern subspecies of the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis, having grayer plumage than the several western subspecies.
  • sodium hydrosulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 4 , used as a reducing agent, especially in dyeing, and as a bleach.
  • sodium hypochlorite — a pale-green, crystalline compound, NaOCl, unstable in air, soluble in cold water, decomposes in hot water: used as a bleaching agent for paper and textiles, in water purification, in household use, and as a fungicide.
  • sodium metasilicate — a white, granular sodium silicate, Na 2 SiO 3 , soluble in water: used in detergents and in bleaching and cleaning products.
  • sodium thiosulphate — a white soluble substance used, in the pentahydrate form, in photography as a fixer to dissolve unchanged silver halides and also to remove excess chlorine from chlorinated water. Formula: Na2S2O3
  • soft-shelled turtle — any of numerous aquatic turtles of the family Trionychidae, inhabiting North America, Asia, and Africa, having the shell covered with flexible, leathery skin instead of horny plates.
  • solid of revolution — a three-dimensional figure formed by revolving a plane area about a given axis.
  • solid-state physics — the branch of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter, especially solids; the study of the electromagnetic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of solids.
  • sow one's wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • split-second timing — timing that depends on minute precision
  • spread oneself thin — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
  • stakeholder pension — In Britain, a stakeholder pension is a flexible pension scheme with low charges. Both employees and the state contribute to the scheme, which is optional, and is in addition to the basic state pension.
  • stanislavski method — method (def 5).
  • sternocleidomastoid — of, relating to, or involving the sternum, the clavicle, and the mastoid process.
  • sulfureted hydrogen — hydrogen sulfide.
  • swallow-tailed coat — tail coat.
  • swallow-tailed kite — an American kite, Elanoides forficatus, having black upper parts, white head and underparts, and a long, deeply forked tail.
  • tall poppy syndrome — a tendency to disparage any person who has achieved great prominence or wealth
  • the london assembly — the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall, Southwark
  • threshold agreement — an agreement between an employer and employees or their union to increase wages by a specified sum if inflation exceeds a specified level in a specified time
  • tidal power station — a power station where the energy of flowing water is converted into electricity
  • to be headline news — to attract a lot of attention from newspapers
  • to lick your wounds — If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
  • to plumb new depths — If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.
  • to plumb the depths — If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
  • trahison des clercs — a compromising of intellectual integrity, esp. for political reasons
  • transdenominational — of or relating to a denomination or denominations.
  • tropical depression — an atmospheric low-pressure system originating in the tropics, specifically, a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained wind speed is 38 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour) or less.
  • under one's control — If something is under your control, you have the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
  • under police escort — If you go somewhere or are taken somewhere under police escort, you go there accompanied by a police escort.
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