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15-letter words containing s, t, r, o, m

  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
  • superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
  • support mission — assistance given by one military unit to another to assist in the accomplishment of the supported unit's mission.
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • 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
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • system operator — a person who maintains a computer system or network, especially one who operates a computer bulletin board.
  • 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.
  • tarsometatarsus — 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.
  • tatra mountains — a mountain range along the border between Slovakia and Poland, extending for about 64 km (40 miles): the highest range of the central Carpathians. Highest peak: Gerlachovka, 2663 m (8737 ft)
  • teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
  • temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the relationship between chemical action and heat.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
  • thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
  • thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
  • torsion modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
  • 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
  • totalitarianism — the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.
  • transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
  • transition team — a group of people who manage the transition between one system, administrative regime, etc and another
  • transmissometer — an instrument for measuring visibility or the transmission of light in the atmosphere.
  • trine immersion — a form of baptism in which the candidate is immersed three times, once for each person of the Trinity.
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
  • trypanosomiasis — any infection caused by a trypanosome.
  • tutorial system — a system of education, especially in some colleges, in which instruction is given personally by tutors, who also act as general advisers of a small group of students in their charge.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • ultra-modernist — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
  • ultramicroscope — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
  • ultramicroscopy — the use of the ultramicroscope.
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