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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
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