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15-letter words containing t, e, l, u

  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-punishment — the act of punishing.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • self-sufficient — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
  • semi-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • semi-industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
  • senior lecturer — a university teacher who does not hold a professorship.
  • serendipitously — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • servius tullius — Servius, Servius Tullius.
  • sexual equality — the same status, rights, and responsibilities for male and female people
  • sexual politics — the differences in the amount of power that male and female people have in a society or group
  • shalosh seudoth — the last of the three prescribed Sabbath meals, taken after Minhah and before the evening service.
  • shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
  • shutter release — a button or similar device used to actuate a camera shutter.
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • simple equation — linear equation
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • smoke pollution — pollution caused by fuels, etc, that produce smoke when burned
  • snapping turtle — either of two large, edible, freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, of North and Central America, having a large head and powerful hooked jaws, especially the common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina.
  • social security — (usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.
  • 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 ethylate — a white, hygroscopic powder, C 2 H 5 ONa, that is decomposed by water into sodium hydroxide and alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium silicate — a substance having the general formula, Na2O.xSiO2, where x varies between 3 and 5, existing as an amorphous powder or present in a usually viscous aqueous solution
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
  • sostenuto pedal — a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • southern lights — aurora australis.
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • special feature — an article differing from the normal format and focusing on a particular topic
  • special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
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