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

  • 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.
  • 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
  • surgical spirit — Surgical spirit is a liquid which is used to clean wounds or surgical instruments. It consists mainly of alcohol.
  • surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • 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
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • tailor's bunion — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • 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.
  • 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! + …
  • tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
  • tensor analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with the calculus of tensors, especially the study of properties that are unaffected by a change of coordinate system.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tequila sunrise — a cocktail, usually consisting of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine. The ingredients have different densities and settle into bands of colour that resemble the sky at sunrise
  • terra sigillata — Arretine ware.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
  • the early hours — If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the everlasting — God
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • title insurance — insurance protecting the owner or mortgagee of real estate from lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • total serialism — (in some music after 1945) the use of serial techniques applied to such elements as rhythm, dynamics, and tone colour, as found in the early works of Stockhausen, Boulez, etc
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