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14-letter words containing i, d, e, a, s, t

  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • resident alien — an alien who has legally established residence in the U.S.
  • restrainedness — the state or quality of being restrained
  • ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • satellite dish — dish (def 8).
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • seaside resort — coastal holiday town
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-satisfied — feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semi-automated — partially automated.
  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
  • social studies — a course of instruction in an elementary or secondary school comprising such subjects as history, geography, civics, etc.
  • sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
  • sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
  • sodium nitrate — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, NaNO 3 , that occurs naturally as soda niter: used in fertilizers, explosives, and glass, and as a color fixative in processed meats.
  • sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
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