15-letter words containing e, r, y, s, t, d
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- grand serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant rendered services of a personal, honorary nature to the king, as carrying his sword or banner.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- identity crisis — a period or episode of psychological distress, often occurring in adolescence but sometimes in adulthood, when a person seeks a clearer sense of self and an acceptable role in society.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
- indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- it's early days — If you say about something that might be true that it is early days, you mean that it is too soon for you to be completely sure about it.
- keynote address — a speech, as at a political convention, that presents important issues, principles, policies, etc.
- lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
- learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
- leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
- listed security — a security that is quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and appears in its Official List of Securities
- master cylinder — the hydraulic pump of an automotive braking system that contains a cylinder and one or two pistons, is actuated by the brake pedal, and supplies hydraulic fluid under pressure to the brakes at each wheel.
- maternity dress — a dress worn by a pregnant woman and which is designed to allow for the changes in body size which take place during pregnancy
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- microdiscectomy — (surgery) microdecompression.
- modestly priced — moderately priced; not overly expensive
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- periodic system — a system of classification of the elements based on the periodic law.
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- presidents' day — the third Monday in February, a legal holiday in the U.S., commemorating the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- ruddy turnstone — a common shorebird, Arenaria interpres, of the New and Old World arctic, wintering south to southern South America and Australia and having striking reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- 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.