15-letter words containing t, o, r, s, i
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- 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
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
- 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
- supporting role — acting: secondary part
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- surreptitiously — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- 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
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- tailor's bunion — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- 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)
- taylor's series — an infinite sum giving the value of a function f(z) in the neighbourhood of a point a in terms of the derivatives of the function evaluated at a. Under certain conditions, the series has the form f(z) = f(a) + [f′(a)(z – a)]/1! + [f″(a)(z – a)2]/2! + …
- teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
- tear one's hair — the act of tearing.
- temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
- 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
- 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
- terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
- tertiary sector — The tertiary sector consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance.
- tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the anglo-irish — the inhabitants of Ireland of English birth or descent
- the cordilleras — the complex of mountain ranges on the W side of the Americas, extending from Alaska to Cape Horn and including the Andes and the Rocky Mountains
- the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
- the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
- the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
- the restoration — the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
- 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