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17-letter words containing s, i, d, f

  • nightshade family — the plant family Solanaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, and vines having alternate, simple or pinnate leaves, conspicuous flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including belladonna, eggplant, nightshade, peppers of the genus Capsicum, petunia, potato, tobacco, and tomato.
  • northern studfish — See under studfish.
  • not one's idea of — not what one regards as (hard work, a holiday, etc)
  • odds-on favourite — a person, team, horse, etc that is regarded as the most likely to win a competition
  • odour of sanctity — sanctimoniousness
  • of its own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
  • order of business — a task assigned or to be dealt with: Our first order of business is to reduce expenses.
  • orifice discharge — Orifice discharge is a model for calculating how quickly a fluid will come out of a punctured vessel or pipe.
  • out of one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • out of this world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • pate de foie gras — See under foie gras.
  • pink-footed goose — a Eurasian goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, having a reddish-brown head, pink legs, and a pink band on its black beak
  • positive definite — (of a quadratic form) positive for all real values of the variables, where the values are not all zero.
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
  • presiding officer — the person who presides over the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly
  • pseudo-scientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pyrosulfuric acid — a strong, crystalline acid, H2S2O7, prepared commercially as a heavy, oily, fuming liquid: used in making explosives and dyes, as a sulfating agent, etc.
  • qualified success — If you describe something as a qualified success, you mean that it is only partly successful.
  • queen of puddings — a pudding made of moist but firm breadcrumb and custard mixture topped with jam and meringue
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • registered office — official business address
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
  • sacrificial anode — Chemistry. an anode that is attached to a metal object subject to electrolysis and is decomposed instead of the object.
  • sanitary landfill — landfill.
  • scientific method — a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
  • self-administered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
  • self-commendation — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-conditioning — Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-dissociation — an act or instance of dissociating.
  • self-introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • semi-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
  • single-sheet feed — a mechanism for feeding or taking single sheets of paper into a printer
  • smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • southern studfish — See under studfish.
  • specific humidity — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • springfield rifle — a single-shot, breechloading .45-caliber rifle used by the U.S. Army from 1867 to 1893.
  • standard function — a subprogram provided by a translator that carries out a task, for example the computation of a mathematical function, such as sine, square root, etc
  • stannous fluoride — a white, crystalline powder, SnF 2 , slightly soluble in water: used as a source of fluorine in the prevention of dental caries, especially as a toothpaste additive.
  • stratified sample — a sample that is not drawn at random from the whole population, but separately from a number of disjoint strata of the population in order to ensure a more representative sample
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