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16-letter words containing s, d, e, a, t

  • pseudoperipteral — having a freestanding colonnade at each end, with engaged columns at the sides.
  • psychic distance — the degree of emotional detachment maintained toward a person, group of people, event, etc.
  • pulse modulation — a type of modulation in which a train of pulses is used as the carrier wave, one or more of its parameters, such as amplitude, being modulated or modified in order to carry information
  • punitive damages — law: penalty payment
  • put in the shade — to appear better than (another); surpass
  • quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • radiation levels — the levels of the emission or transfer of radiant energy or the levels of the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
  • radiotransparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
  • ranikhet disease — Newcastle disease.
  • rattlesnake weed — a hawkweed, Hieracium venosum, of eastern North America, whose leaves and root are thought to possess medicinal properties.
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • record separator — (character)   (RS) ASCII character 30.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • register dancing — Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation. Some designs with this problem, like the Intel 80x86, do have a handful of special-purpose registers that can be pressed into service, providing suitable care is taken to avoid unpleasant side effects on the state of the processor: while the special-purpose register is being used to hold an intermediate value, a delicate minuet is required in which the previous value of the register is saved and then restored just before the official function (and value) of the special-purpose register is again needed.
  • registered share — a stock registered to the owner's name
  • relative density — specific gravity.
  • research student — a student studying for a doctoral award, that is, a PhD or an MPhil
  • reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
  • residential care — the provision by a welfare agency of a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • residual current — an electric current that continues to flow in a device, etc when there is no voltage supply, due to electrons emitted by heat, etc
  • restricted class — a class of yachts that, although differing somewhat in design and rigging, are deemed able to race together because of conformity to certain standards.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rigid designator — an expression that identifies the same individual in every possible world: for example, "Shakespeare" is a rigid designator since it is possible that Shakespeare might not have been a playwright but not that he might not have been Shakespeare
  • roosevelt island — Formerly Welfare Island, Blackwells Island. an island in the East River, New York City: residential community. 1½ miles (2½ km) long.
  • saddle stitching — to sew, bind, or decorate with a saddle stitch.
  • safe deposit box — A safe deposit box is a small box, usually kept in a special room in a bank, in which you can store valuable objects.
  • safe-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • safety standards — standards prescribed (by a regulatory body, etc) that must be adhered to to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • sandlot baseball — a form of baseball played by children on an area of vacant ground
  • sandstone quarry — a quarry from which sand is extracted
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • saturated liquid — a liquid whose temperature and pressure are such that any decrease in pressure without change in temperature causes it to boil.
  • scar tissue code — (humour, programming)   Old code that is commented out but still included in the current release.
  • scheduled castes — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • scratch hardness — resistance of a material, as a stone or metal, to scratching by one of several other materials, the known hardnesses of which are assembled into a standard scale, as the Mohs' scale of minerals.
  • sculpture garden — a garden that showcases sculptures in landscaped surroundings
  • seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
  • second adventist — Adventist (def 1).
  • second amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
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