14-letter words containing l, d, s
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
- shield cricket — the interstate cricket competition held for the Sheffield Shield
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- shooting lodge — a country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting season
- shoulder blade — the scapula.
- shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
- shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
- shropshire lad — a volume of poetry (1896) by A. E. Housman.
- side-splitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
- sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- sidi-bel-abbes — a city in NW Algeria.
- siegfried line — a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
- signed english — a form of communication employing the signs of American Sign Language but using English grammar in place of ASL syntax and using invented forms for English grammatical elements, such as of, to, the, and -ing, where no ASL sign exists.
- silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
- simplex method — a numerical method for solving problems in linear programming.
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
- single-engined — (of an aircraft) having only one engine
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- siraj-ud-daula — 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- slalom descent — a winding descent
- slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
- slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
- slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
- slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
- slate-coloured — like slate in colour
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- 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 fastener — zipper (def 2).
- slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
- slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
- 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.
- slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
- snow blindness — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
- soba (noodles) — Japanese noodles containing buckwheat flour
- social dancing — dancing performed by couples or by groups, usually as a form of recreation.
- social disease — a venereal disease.