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14-letter words containing s, l, a, r, t

  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • singular point — a point at which a given function of a complex variable has no derivative but of which every neighborhood contains points at which the function has derivatives.
  • sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • skull practice — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • slate-coloured — like slate in colour
  • slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
  • slaughterously — murderously
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
  • social chapter — The social chapter is an agreement between countries in the European Union concerning workers' rights and working conditions.
  • social charter — a declaration of the rights, minimum wages, maximum hours, etc, of workers in the European Union, later adopted in the Social Chapter
  • social control — Sociology. the enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure.
  • social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
  • social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solar constant — the average rate at which radiant energy is received from the sun by the earth, equal to 1.94 small calories per minute per square centimeter of area perpendicular to the sun's rays, measured at a point outside the earth's atmosphere when the earth is at its mean distance from the sun.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • solitudinarian — a person who seeks solitude; recluse.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • south portland — a city in SW Maine.
  • south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • space platform — space station.
  • spatiotemporal — pertaining to space-time.
  • spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
  • spectrological — relating to spectres or spectrology
  • sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
  • spiritualistic — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
  • spiritualities — church property or revenue or a Church benefice
  • spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spotted laurel — an evergreen cornaceous shrub, Aucuba japonica, of S and SE Asia, the female of which has yellow-spotted leaves
  • st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
  • staff corporal — a noncommissioned rank in the British Army above that of staff sergeant and below that of warrant officer
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • staghorn coral — staghorn coral.
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • standard class — the cheaper class of seats on trains, below first class
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