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16-letter words containing t, r, a, d, e, o

  • sandstone quarry — a quarry from which sand is extracted
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • scar tissue code — (humour, programming)   Old code that is commented out but still included in the current release.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • solid propellant — a rocket propellant in solid form, usually containing a mixture or combination of fuel and oxidizer.
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • state-controlled — controlled by the government
  • storm and stress — Sturm und Drang.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
  • sun-dried tomato — tomato dried in the sun
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • take holy orders — to become ordained
  • take to the road — to start traveling; set out
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • tax depreciation — Tax depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for the internal books.
  • terminal adaptor — (networking, hardware)   (TA) Equipment used to adapt Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate Interface (BRI) channels to existing terminal equipment standards such as EIA-232 and V.35. A Terminal Adaptor is typically packaged like a modem, either as a stand-alone unit or as an interface card that plugs into a computer or other communications equipment (such as a router or PBX). A Terminal Adaptor does not interoperate with a modem; it replaces it.
  • tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the orange order — a society founded in Ireland (1795) to uphold the Protestant religion, the Protestant dynasty, and the Protestant constitution
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