15-letter words containing s, e, a, d, r
- 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).
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- 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
- 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
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- salt and pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- salt-and-pepper — pepper-and-salt.
- 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.
- santa gertrudis — one of an American breed of beef cattle, developed from Shorthorn and Brahman stock for endurance to torrid temperatures.
- 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
- scared shitless — terrified
- scared to death — terrified
- scatter diagram — a graphic representation of bivariate data as a set of points in the plane that have Cartesian coordinates equal to corresponding values of the two variates.
- sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
- scrounge around — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
- seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
- second mortgage — a mortgage the lien of which is next in priority to a first mortgage.
- secondary cause — a cause which is not the primary or ultimate cause
- secondary color — a color, as orange, green, or violet, produced by mixing two primary colors.
- secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.