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15-letter words containing l, i, s, e, t

  • rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • russell's attic — (mathematics)   An imaginary room containing countably many pairs of shoes (i.e. a pair for each natural number), and countably many pairs of socks. How many shoes are there? Answer: countably many (map the left shoes to even numbers and the right shoes to odd numbers, say). How many socks are there? Also countably many, we want to say, but we can't prove it without the Axiom of Choice, because in each pair, the socks are indistinguishable (there's no such thing as a left sock). Although for any single pair it is easy to select one, we cannot specify a general method for doing this.
  • russian thistle — a saltwort, Salsola kali tenuifolia, that has narrow, spinelike leaves, a troublesome weed in the central and western U.S.
  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • saddle-stitched — having a binding in which the sections of a publication are inserted inside each other and secured through the middle fold with thread, or wire staples
  • saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
  • sagittal suture — a serrated line on the top of the skull that marks the junction of the two parietal bones
  • saint celestine — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.
  • saint elisabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
  • saint elizabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
  • saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • sales assistant — a person who processes orders, arranges stock and helps customers in a retail shop
  • sales associate — salesperson
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • sales promotion — the methods or techniques for creating public acceptance of or interest in a product, usually in addition to standard merchandising techniques, as advertising or personal selling, and generally consisting of the offer of free samples, gifts made to a purchaser, or the like.
  • saline solution — a solution of salt in water, esp one used medicinally or to keep contact lenses moist
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • schrecklichkeit — frightfulness; horror.
  • scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
  • scsi controller — SCSI adaptor
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
  • self fulfilment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
  • self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
  • self-caricature — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • self-commitment — the act of committing.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
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