0%

15-letter words containing s, o, d, i

  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • registered port — (networking)   Any TCP or UDP port with a number in the range 1025 to 65535 (i.e. not a well-known port) that is registered with IANA.
  • registered post — a Post Office service by which compensation is paid for loss or damage to mail for which a registration fee has been paid
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • religious order — monks: monastery
  • remand prisoner — a prisoner who is sent back into custody (or sometimes admitted to bail) to await trial or continuation of their trial
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • required course — an obligatory course for all students
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • restricted code — a style of language use associated with informal situations, characterized by linguistic predictability and by its dependence on the external context and on the shared knowledge and experience of the participants for conveying meaning. Compare code (def 11b), elaborated code.
  • revised version — a recension of the Authorized Version, prepared by British and American scholars, the Old Testament being published in 1885, and the New Testament in 1881.
  • reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • rogation sunday — the fifth Sunday after Easter; it sees the start of the supplications that are continued during the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
  • rouget de lisle — Claude Joseph [klohd zhaw-zef] /kloʊd ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1760–1836, French army officer and composer of songs: wrote and composed Marseillaise.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sadomasochistic — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
  • san jacinto day — a legal holiday observed in Texas on April 21.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • sanitary cordon — cordon sanitaire.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.
  • school holidays — the period during which schools are closed - in the summer, at Christmas and Easter, and at other times of the year
  • schooner-rigged — rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • scorpion spider — whipscorpion.
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • second position — a position in which the feet are spread apart and are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • securicor guard — a guard who works for Securicor
  • seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-definition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?