15-letter words containing s, t, a, l, e, d
- medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
- mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- middle distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- middle-distance — Also called middle ground, middle plane. Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
- mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- myelodysplastic — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or showing evidence of myelodysplasia.
- needless to say — of course, obviously
- neutral density — black, white, or a shade of grey; a colourless tone
- newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
- non-residential — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- nonconsolidated — (financial) Including the financial data of only the parent company.
- nonencapsulated — not encapsulated
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- noninsecticidal — absent or free of insecticide
- nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
- old clothes man — a person who deals in second-hand clothes
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- old-established — established for a long time
- old-man-the-sea — (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) an old man who clung to the shoulders of Sindbad the Sailor for many days and nights.
- operationalised — Simple past tense and past participle of operationalise.
- outside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn inward so that it can measure outside dimensions, as the diameter of a rod.
- panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
- pedestrian mall — A pedestrian mall is the same as a pedestrian precinct.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- pepper-and-salt — composed of a fine mixture of black with white: pepper-and-salt hair.
- pleasant island — former name of Nauru.
- polyunsaturated — of or noting a class of animal or vegetable fats, especially plant oils, whose molecules consist of carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated by hydrogen atoms and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- prepresidential — describing the period before a person's rise to presidency
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- pseudocoelomate — having a pseudocoel.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pseudotripteral — having an arrangement of columns suggesting a tripteral structure but without the inner colonnades.
- pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
- radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- radio telescope — a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- reconsolidation — an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification: consolidation of companies.