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15-letter words containing d, r, o, s, p

  • sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • stop-loss order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • studio portrait — a photograph of a person taken in a studio
  • styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
  • 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
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • 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.
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
  • 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
  • to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • transportedness — the quality or state of being carried away with pleasure or rapture
  • trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
  • uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
  • under suspicion — suspected of a crime
  • undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unprotected sex — an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy performed without the use of a condom, thus involving the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
  • unprotectedness — the state of being unprotected or defenceless against attack
  • word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
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