15-letter words containing s, e, t, l, a
- starting handle — a crank used to start the motor of an automobile.
- state socialism — the theory, doctrine, and movement advocating a planned economy controlled by the state, with state ownership of all industries and natural resources.
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- stereotypically — in a stereotypical manner
- stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
- stokesay castle — a fortified manor house near Craven Arms in Shropshire: built in the 12th century, with a 16th-century gatehouse
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- structural gene — cistron.
- subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
- subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- substantiatable — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- super-sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- 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.
- 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
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
- swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syntax language — a metalanguage used to refer to the grammatical or other formal features of an object language.
- systems analyst — A systems analyst is someone whose job is to decide what computer equipment and software a company needs, and to provide it.
- tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- tangible assets — valuable items: cash, property, etc.
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- tarsometatarsal — the large bone in the lower leg of a bird with which the toe bones articulate, formed by the fusion of tarsal and metatarsal bones.
- tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
- taylor's series — an infinite sum giving the value of a function f(z) in the neighbourhood of a point a in terms of the derivatives of the function evaluated at a. Under certain conditions, the series has the form f(z) = f(a) + [f′(a)(z – a)]/1! + [f″(a)(z – a)2]/2! + …
- telesales staff — the members of a company's staff that deal with telesales
- tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.