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15-letter words containing i, n, t, r, a, o

  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
  • standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • star attraction — the main or most popular attraction, as of a tourist destination, etc
  • star connection — a connection used in a polyphase electrical device or system of devices in which the windings each have one end connected to a common junction, the star point, and the other end to a separate terminal
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • strait of canso — a channel in Canada, between the Nova Scotia mainland and S Cape Breton Island
  • strait of tiran — a strait between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Length: 16 km (10 miles). Width: 8 km (5 miles)
  • 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.
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • structural iron — iron shaped for use in construction.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • suburbanization — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • 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.
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
  • tailor's bunion — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
  • tatra mountains — a mountain range along the border between Slovakia and Poland, extending for about 64 km (40 miles): the highest range of the central Carpathians. Highest peak: Gerlachovka, 2663 m (8737 ft)
  • teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
  • tear one's hair — the act of tearing.
  • temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
  • 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
  • teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • terra incognita — an unknown or unexplored land, region, or subject.
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the incarnation — the taking on of a human body by the second person of the Trinity; the joining of the divine and the human in Jesus Christ
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
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