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15-letter words containing o, u, t, e, r, s

  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • ruddy turnstone — a common shorebird, Arenaria interpres, of the New and Old World arctic, wintering south to southern South America and Australia and having striking reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
  • 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.
  • run-on sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • 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
  • sartor resartus — a satirical work (1833–34) by Carlyle.
  • 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.
  • scatter cushion — Scatter cushions are small cushions for use on sofas and chairs.
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • security police — a police force responsible for maintaining order at a specific locale or under specific circumstances, as at an airport or factory.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • senior lecturer — a university teacher who does not hold a professorship.
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • smoker's tongue — Pathology. leukoplakia in the mouth caused by irritation due to smoking.
  • social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
  • sodium arsenite — a white or grayish-white, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaAsO 2 , used chiefly in arsenical soaps for hides, as an insecticide, and as a weed-killer.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
  • sodium stearate — Sodium stearate is a salt of stearic acid used as a surfactant (= a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid and allows it to foam) in order to aid the solubility of hydrophobic substances in oral medicines.
  • sojourner truth — Sojourner [soh-jur-ner,, soh-jur-ner] /ˈsoʊ dʒɜr nər,, soʊˈdʒɜr nər/ (Show IPA), (Isabella Van Wagener) 1797?–1883, U.S. abolitionist, orator, and women's-rights advocate, born a slave.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound recordist — recordist.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
  • st. ulmo's fire — St. Elmo's fire.
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