15-letter words containing o, u, t, e, r, s
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
- statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- stay the course — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
- storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
- sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
- tarsometatarsus — the large bone in the lower leg of a bird with which the toe bones articulate, formed by the fusion of tarsal and metatarsal bones.
- teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
- technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
- temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
- the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.