15-letter words containing d, r, o, s, p, h
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- spread the word — make others aware
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- 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.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.