15-letter words containing r, e, s, g, t, a
- speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
- spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
- stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
- 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
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- 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.
- star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- states' righter — a person who opposes U.S. federal intervention in affairs of the separate states, supporting this position by a strict interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.
- steam generator — steam-producing power plant
- steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
- storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
- straight matter — the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
- straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- stranger danger — the potential or perceived risk posed by unknown people to children and about which it may be advisable to warn them
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- structural gene — cistron.
- subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- terra sigillata — Arretine ware.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- the everlasting — God
- the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
- theory of games — game theory.
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- training course — practical programme of study
- training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transgressional — of or relating to transgression
- tungsten rating — a film-speed rating that indicates the relative sensitivity of a particular film stock to light from incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments.