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15-letter words containing s, t, r, e, l, n

  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
  • 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
  • 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 everlasting — God
  • 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 saint leger — an annual horse race run at Doncaster since 1776: one of the classics of the flat-racing season
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • tim berners-lee — (person)   The man who invented the web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. He then went on to work for Plessey Telecommunications, and D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent printers and a multi-tasking operating system), before joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire', which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for today's web. In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he wrote the first web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a hypertext browser/editor which ran under NEXTSTEP. The program "WorldWideWeb" was first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet as a whole in the summer of 1991. In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1999, he became the first holder of the 3Com Founders chair. He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the past present and future of the Web. In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society. Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born 1991 and 1994.
  • 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.
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transelementate — transelement.
  • transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • transgressional — of or relating to transgression
  • transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
  • transliteration — to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language: to transliterate the Greek Χ as ch.
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • treasure island — (italics) a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson.
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tuberculin test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to a given quantity of tuberculin indicates a past or present infection.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
  • turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
  • ultra-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
  • ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
  • unconstrainable — unable to be confined
  • unconstrainedly — in an unconfined manner
  • uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
  • universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
  • universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
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