14-letter words containing n, o, a, d
- solar calendar — a calendar whose dates are based on the position of the earth and its proximity to the sun
- solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- solids loading — The solids loading is the amount of suspended solids in a substance.
- solitudinarian — a person who seeks solitude; recluse.
- sonderkommando — a group of prisoners assigned to collect belongings and dispose of the bodies of other prisoners who had died or been killed.
- song and dance — a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- south pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- south portland — a city in SW Maine.
- spider phaeton — (formerly) a light horse-drawn carriage with a high body and large slender wheels
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
- standard error — the standard deviation of a distribution of a sample statistic, especially when the mean is used as the statistic.
- 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.
- standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
- standard score — the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample in units of standard deviation.
- standing order — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- 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.
- streptodornase — a deoxyribonuclease, obtained from hemolytic streptococci, used in medicine for decomposing blood clots and fibrinous and purulent matter.
- strong forward — power forward
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- sulphonic acid — type of strong organic acid
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- suwannee sound — a part of the Gulf of Mexico where the Suwannee river reaches the sea
- sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
- sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
- swollen-headed — conceited
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
- tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
- tetanus toxoid — an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.
- that's done it — an exclamation of frustration when something is ruined
- the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.