14-letter words containing n, e, t, l, d
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
- single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- slalom descent — a winding descent
- slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
- 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 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.
- split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- standard model — a mathematical description of the elementary particles of matter and the fundamental forces by which they interact and behave; a model combining electromagnetic and weak forces.
- stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
- steel industry — production of steel
- stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
- striped marlin — a marlin, Tetrapturus audax, of the Pacific Ocean, having the sides of the body marked with dark blue vertical stripes, valued for sport and food.
- stuffed animal — soft toy
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- superinsulated — highly insulated
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- tandem trailer — Also called double-bottom, double-trailer truck, tandem. a very long rig consisting of a tractor pulling two trailers hooked up one behind another.
- tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
- the unemployed — people who are out of work
- the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
- to lend a hand — If you lend someone a hand, you help them.
- to lend an ear — If you lend an ear to someone or their problems, you listen to them carefully and sympathetically.
- toilet trained — If a child is toilet trained, he or she has learned to use the toilet.
- toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
- top-down model — (programming) A method for estimating the overall cost and effort of the proposed software project from global properties of the project. The total cost and schedule is partitioned into components for planning purposes.
- toronto euclid — (language) The standard dialect of Euclid, as compared to Ottawa Euclid.
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
- transcendental — transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- tunnel disease — aeroembolism (def 2).
- tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.