0%

15-letter words containing s, u, r, m, i, t

  • question master — quizmaster.
  • quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
  • resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rime suffisante — full rhyme.
  • rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
  • rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
  • rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
  • rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
  • run-time system — (programming)   (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code and processes which support software written in a particular language running on a particular platform. The RTS typically deals with details of the interface between the program and the operating system such as system calls, program start-up and termination, and memory management.
  • scpi consortium — (body)   A body established to promote Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Address: 8380 Hercules Drive, Suite P3, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA.
  • secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
  • securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
  • security camera — closed-circuit TV camera
  • semi-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product
  • semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • sodium arsenite — a white or grayish-white, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaAsO 2 , used chiefly in arsenical soaps for hides, as an insecticide, and as a weed-killer.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
  • sodium stearate — Sodium stearate is a salt of stearic acid used as a surfactant (= a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid and allows it to foam) in order to aid the solubility of hydrophobic substances in oral medicines.
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • st. ulmo's fire — St. Elmo's fire.
  • stamping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • stomping ground — a habitual or favorite haunt.
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
  • strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
  • superparasitism — the parasitic deposit of eggs on a host already parasitized by a different member of the same species
  • 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
  • swimming trunks — men's swimsuit shorts
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?