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14-letter words containing i, n, d, o, r, e

  • scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serious-minded — characterized by seriousness of intention, purpose, thought, etc.; earnest.
  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
  • sld resolution — (logic, programming)   (Selected, Linear, Definite) Linear resolution with a selection function for definite sentences. A definite sentence has exactly one positive literal in each clause and this literal is selected to be resolved upon, i.e. replaced in the goal clause by the conjunction of negative literals which form the body of the clause.
  • slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • sobersidedness — the state or quality of being solemn or sobersided
  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • 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 nitrite — Chemistry. a yellowish or white crystalline compound, NaNO 2 , soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and ether: used in the manufacture of dyes and as a color fixative.
  • soldering iron — an instrument for melting and applying solder.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • sound engineer — A sound engineer is a person who works in a recording studio or for a radio or television company, and whose job it is to alter and balance the levels of different sounds as they are recorded.
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
  • standing order — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
  • stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • teutonic order — a religious military order founded c1190 in the Holy Land by German crusaders that originally did charitable work among the sick and later fought against the Slavic and Baltic peoples in the eastward expansion of medieval Germany.
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
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