15-letter words containing e, t, i, o, l
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
- subintellection — an implication that is more or less understood
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- taylor's series — an infinite sum giving the value of a function f(z) in the neighbourhood of a point a in terms of the derivatives of the function evaluated at a. Under certain conditions, the series has the form f(z) = f(a) + [f′(a)(z – a)]/1! + [f″(a)(z – a)2]/2! + …
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- techno-thriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
- technologically — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
- telamonian ajax — Ajax (def 1).
- telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
- television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- tensor analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with the calculus of tensors, especially the study of properties that are unaffected by a change of coordinate system.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tertiary colour — a colour formed by mixing two secondary colours
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
- the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
- the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
- the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
- the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
- the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
- the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
- think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.