15-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- 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.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- 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
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- summer diarrhea — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
- 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
- summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
- sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- sunrise service — (sometimes initial capital letters) an outdoor religious service held at dawn on Easter morning.
- sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
- super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
- super-efficient — performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable: a reliable, efficient assistant.
- super-sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcellence — extreme or supreme excellence; the quality of being superexcellent
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- supergiant star — Astronomy. an exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
- supernaturalist — supernatural character or agency.
- supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
- supernaturalize — to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- superparasitism — the parasitic deposit of eggs on a host already parasitized by a different member of the same species
- superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
- superphenomenon — a phenomenon that is beyond the typical qualities of phenomena
- superplasticity — the phenomenon, exhibited by certain metals and alloys usually at high temperatures, of stretching to extreme lengths without breaking
- superspecialist — a highly skilled specialist
- supporting role — acting: secondary part