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15-letter words containing s, a, r, d

  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • realized losses — Realized losses are losses which have occurred upon the sale of an asset.
  • reconsideration — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
  • reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.
  • red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • redemonstration — the act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence: a belief incapable of demonstration.
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • registered mail — prepaid first-class mail that has been recorded at a post office prior to delivery for safeguarding against loss, theft, or damage during transmission.
  • registered name — the official or trademark name of something such as a product or company
  • reindustrialize — to subject to reindustrialization.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • residual stress — a stress in a metal, on a microscopic scale and resulting from nonuniform thermal changes, plastic deformation, or other causes aside from temporary external forces or applications of heat.
  • restricted area — out of bounds to military personnel
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • rez-de-chaussee — street level; ground floor.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • rite de passage — rite of passage.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
  • roundheadedness — the state of having a round head
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sacred mushroom — any of various hallucinogenic mushrooms, esp species of Psilocybe and Amanita, that have been eaten in rituals in various parts of the world
  • saffron strands — the dried stigmas of the saffron, which are then crushed into powder to flavour or colour food
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
  • sanatana dharma — the name used by Hindus for Hinduism
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
  • santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
  • sargon of akkad — 24th to 23rd century bc, semilegendary Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended from the Gulf to the Mediterranean
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • 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.
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
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