15-letter words containing l, i, p, e, d
- redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- rendering plant — a factory where waste products and livestock carcasses are converted into industrial fats and oils (such as tallow, used to make soap) and other products (such as fertilizer)
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
- río de la plata — Rí·o de la [ree-aw th e lah] /ˈri ɔ ðɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA) an estuary on the SE coast of South America between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná rivers, about 185 miles (290 km) long.
- riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
- self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- septendecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 54 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 102 zeros.
- serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- sewage disposal — waste processing
- sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
- sidereal period — the period of revolution of a body about another with respect to one or more distant stars
- sidesplittingly — in a side-splitting manner
- sign the pledge — to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
- simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
- simple pendulum — a hypothetical apparatus consisting of a point mass suspended from a weightless, frictionless thread whose length is constant, the motion of the body about the string being periodic and, if the angle of deviation from the original equilibrium position is small, representing simple harmonic motion (distinguished from physical pendulum).
- simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
- slap and tickle — sexual play
- slide projector — device for showing slides
- social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- spanish needles — (used with a singular or plural verb) a composite plant, Bidens bipinnata, having achenes with downwardly barbed awns.
- special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
- special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
- speller-divider — a reference book that lists words in alphabetical order to show spelling and syllabification.
- spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
- spread-eagleism — boastfulness or bombast, especially in the display of patriotic or nationalistic pride in the U.S.; flag-waving.
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
- unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
- undercapitalize — to provide an insufficient amount of capital for (a business enterprise).