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18-letter words containing s, d, a

  • southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
  • southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • spackling compound — spackle
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • spread one's wings — to make full use of one's abilities
  • st. andrew's cross — a low evergreen shrub, Ascyrum hypericoides, native to temperate and subtropical America, having flowers in clusters of three: often cultivated.
  • stand at attention — military: stand straight
  • stand confessed as — to be revealed or admitted as
  • stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • stand-by passenger — someone who buys a (usually cheaper) ticket, if they are still available, on a plane just before it is about to leave rather than booking in advance
  • stand/wait in line — When people stand in line or wait in line, they stand one behind the other in a line, waiting their turn for something.
  • standard amenities — the sanitary facilities recommended for all dwellings by the housing law: a fixed bath or shower, wash-hand basin, and sink, all supplied with hot and cold water, and a flush toilet
  • standard deviation — a measure of dispersion in a frequency distribution, equal to the square root of the mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean of the distribution.
  • standard of living — a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual: The well-educated generally have a high standard of living.
  • standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
  • standing committee — a permanent committee, as of a legislature, society, etc., intended to consider all matters pertaining to a designated subject.
  • standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • straits of florida — a sea passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba, linking the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • sturt's desert pea — the desert pea
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
  • succes de scandale — success won by reason of topical, usually scandalous, subject matter rather than by merit and critical respect.
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • swollen-headedness — the quality of being conceited
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
  • the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
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