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15-letter words containing r, e, d, i, n

  • standing charge — fixed energy costs
  • standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • steroidogenesis — the formation of steroids, as by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • street accident — a traffic accident
  • strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • 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.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • thyroid hormone — A thyroid hormone is a hormone, especially thyroxine or triiodothyronine, produced by the thyroid gland.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • time difference — the difference in clock time between two or more different time zones
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • to one's credit — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • trading partner — a person, organization, or country with whom somebody customarily does business
  • train attendant — a railway employee charged with managing the safe boarding of passengers, ticket inspection, etc
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
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