16-letter words containing s, t, a, l, e, d
- earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
- earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
- endocranial cast — a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropology
- ethinylestradiol — A derivative of 17\u03b2-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
- external student — a student studying a university subject extramurally
- extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
- fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
- fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
- feme-sole trader — a married woman who is entitled to carry on business on her own account and responsibility, independently of her husband.
- flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- flat-felled seam — a seam on the face of a garment, as on the outside of the legs of blue jeans, made by overlapping or interlocking one seam allowance with the other and top-stitching them together onto the garment with two parallel rows of stitches.
- flathead catfish — a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- glendale heights — a city in NE Illinois.
- gold star mother — an American woman whose son or daughter has died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.
- greater sand eel — a large species of sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus
- hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
- incidental music — music intended primarily to point up or accompany parts of the action of a play or to serve as transitional material between scenes.
- indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
- indemnity clause — a clause in a contract that commits one or both parties to indemnify any loss that arises out of the contract
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
- industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
- intellectualised — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualise.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- interrelatedness — reciprocally or mutually related: an interrelated series of experiments.
- intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
- isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
- it is early days — Early means near the beginning of something such as a piece of work or a process.
- italian dressing — a strongly flavored vinaigrette for salads, containing garlic, oregano, red peppers, etc.
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.