15-letter words containing s, e, o, d
- sound recordist — recordist.
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southend-on-sea — a seaport in SE Essex, in SE England, on Thames estuary.
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
- speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
- speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
- spell a paddock — to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
- spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
- spread the word — make others aware
- squadron leader — air-force officer
- stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- stand in awe of — to respect and fear
- stand to reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- standing orders — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
- star-nosed mole — a North American mole, Condylura cristata, having a starlike ring of fleshy processes around the end of the snout.
- start of header — (character) (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- state education — education provided by the state; education which is not private
- statutory order — a statute that applies further legislation to an existing act
- steroidogenesis — the formation of steroids, as by the adrenal cortex, testes, and ovaries.
- stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
- stop-loss order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- storage disease — a metabolic disorder characterized by excessive storage in certain cells of normal metabolic intermediates, as fats, iron, and carbohydrates.
- store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
- students' union — The students' union is the students' organization in a university or college which organizes leisure activities, provides welfare services, and represents students' political interests.
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- studio audience — spectators on a TV set
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
- succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
- sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
- summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
- summer holidays — the time when children do not go to school in the summer
- sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten