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14-letter words containing o, d, e, l

  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • 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
  • slate-coloured — like slate in colour
  • 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 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.
  • 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 disease — a venereal disease.
  • social drinker — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • social studies — a course of instruction in an elementary or secondary school comprising such subjects as history, geography, civics, etc.
  • sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
  • sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
  • sodium sulfide — a yellow or brick-red, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, Na 2 S, used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, and rubber, as a depilatory for leather, and in the flotation of powdered lead and copper ores.
  • sodium sulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 3 , used chiefly as a food preservative, as a bleaching agent, and as a developer in photography.
  • solar calendar — a calendar whose dates are based on the position of the earth and its proximity to the sun
  • soldering iron — an instrument for melting and applying solder.
  • soldier beetle — a yellowish-red cantharid beetle, Rhagonycha fulva, having a somewhat elongated body
  • soldier orchid — a European orchid, Orchis militaris, having pale purple flowers with a four-lobed lower lip
  • soldiers' home — an institution that provides care and shelter for retired soldiers.
  • solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
  • solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
  • somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
  • speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
  • split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
  • spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
  • spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
  • 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.
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • street orderly — street cleaner.
  • studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
  • swallow-tailed — having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • swollen-headed — conceited
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • takeout double — informatory double.
  • tatterdemalion — a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
  • tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
  • the cordeliers — a political club founded in 1790 and meeting at an old Cordelier convent in Paris
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the lesser dog — the constellation Canis Minor
  • the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
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