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14-letter words containing i, s, o, p, d

  • social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
  • solid compound — a word formed from two or more other words or elements, written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • 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
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
  • sponge pudding — a light steamed or baked pudding, spongy in texture, made with various flavourings or fruit
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
  • spring molding — a molded board, as one forming part of a cornice, placed diagonally and secured at the ends to two surfaces intersecting at a right angle.
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • third position — a position in which the feet overlap at the heels with the toes pointing out in opposite directions to the left and right.
  • tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
  • trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
  • uti possidetis — the principle that vests in either of the belligerents at the end of a war all territory actually occupied and controlled by them.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • waste disposal — A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste.
  • window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
  • window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • windows xp pro — Windows XP Professional Edition
  • zinc phosphide — a dark-gray, gritty, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Zn 3 P 2 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.
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