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15-letter words containing o, s, t, e, a

  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • representations — statements of facts, true or alleged, esp set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
  • resensitization — the state or process of being sensitized.
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • retail politics — a political strategy or campaign style of meeting and speaking directly to as many voters as possible: New Hampshire is a state where retail politics are decisive. Not every candidate is good at retail politics.
  • reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rolling targets — a series of targets which are reviewed periodically so that they always extend for the same period into the future
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
  • saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
  • saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
  • sales associate — salesperson
  • 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
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
  • sarcoptic mange — mange caused by burrowing mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
  • sartor resartus — a satirical work (1833–34) by Carlyle.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • scared to death — terrified
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
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