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15-letter words containing s, c, r, e

  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • super-efficient — performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable: a reliable, efficient assistant.
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
  • superexcellence — extreme or supreme excellence; the quality of being superexcellent
  • superexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
  • superspecialist — a highly skilled specialist
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
  • 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.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • surge protector — a small device to protect a computer, telephone, television set, or the like from damage by high-voltage electrical surges.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • synthetic resin — any of a large class of complex organic liquids or solids formed from simpler molecules by condensation or polymerization, used esp. in making plastics
  • technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
  • telestereoscope — a binocular optical instrument used for stereoscopic viewing of distant objects; a small range finder.
  • tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
  • tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
  • text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
  • textus receptus — a text of a work that is generally accepted as being genuine or original.
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the renaissance — the period of European history marking the waning of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world: usually considered as beginning in Italy in the 14th century
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
  • to do sb credit — If you say that something does someone credit, you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it.
  • to earn a crust — If you earn a crust, you earn enough money to live on, especially by doing work you would prefer not to do.
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