15-letter words containing p, d, s
- steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
- step-and-repeat — noting or pertaining to a process by which successive photo-offset plates are produced automatically or semiautomatically with great precision: used especially in making plates for multicolor printing.
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
- stop-loss order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- studio portrait — a photograph of a person taken in a studio
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- suicide attempt — bid to kill oneself
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- 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.
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- suppressor grid — an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
- threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- transportedness — the quality or state of being carried away with pleasure or rapture
- trapdoor spider — any of various, often large, spiders (esp. family Ctenizidae) that dig a burrow and cover the entrance with a hinged lid like a trapdoor
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- un-supplemented — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- uncorresponding — identical in all essentials or respects: corresponding fingerprints.
- under suspicion — suspected of a crime
- undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- undisappointing — not disappointing
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unpractisedness — the quality or state of being unpractised
- unprotected sex — an act of sexual intercourse or sodomy performed without the use of a condom, thus involving the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
- unprotectedness — the state of being unprotected or defenceless against attack
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- upper east side — a section of the East Side of New York City, conventionally between 57th Street and 96th Street, known for its affluence.
- vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy