14-letter words containing s, e, a, d, o
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
- sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
- swollen-headed — conceited
- tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
- take soundings — to try to find out people's opinions on a subject
- tank destroyer — a high-speed, self-propelled, armored combat vehicle with antitank cannon.
- tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
- tellurous acid — a white, crystalline powder, H2TeO3
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
- terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
- terraced house — A terraced house or a terrace house is one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls.
- tetanus toxoid — an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin.
- tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
- texas hold 'em — a popular variety of poker in which each player can use any or all of five shared cards in combination with either or both of two private cards to form the best possible hand of five cards
- that's done it — an exclamation of frustration when something is ruined
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
- to gather dust — If you say that something is gathering dust, you mean that it has been left somewhere and nobody is using it or doing anything with it.
- to shake hands — If you shake hands with someone, you take their right hand in your own for a few moments, often moving it up and down slightly, when you are saying hello or goodbye to them, congratulating them, or agreeing on something. You can also say that two people shake hands.
- to sweat blood — If you say that someone sweats blood trying to do something, you are emphasizing that they try very hard to do it.
- toreador pants — women's close-fitting slacks that extend to or slightly above the calf, styled after the pants traditionally worn by Spanish bullfighters.
- trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- trade unionist — a member of a trade union.
- trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
- transistorized — (of a device) equipped with a transistor
- trepidatiously — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- trisoctahedron — a solid bounded by 24 identical faces in groups of three, each group corresponding to one face of an octahedron.
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- unconsolidated — brought together into a single whole.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- unhandsomeness — unattractiveness
- unidimensional — one-dimensional.
- united nations — (used with a singular verb) an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. Abbreviation: UN. Compare General Assembly, Security Council.
- unpersonalized — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- unsubordinated — noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.
- up-to-dateness — (of persons, buildings, etc.) keeping up with the times, as in outlook, information, ideas, appearance, or style.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure