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15-letter words containing u, n, d

  • studio audience — spectators on a TV set
  • sturm und drang — a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
  • subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
  • suck it and see — to try something to find out what it is, what it is like, or how it works
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • suicide machine — a device designed to permit a terminally ill person to commit suicide, as by the automatic injection of a lethal drug.
  • sulfanilic acid — a grayish-white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, the para form of C 6 H 7 NO 3 S, used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
  • summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
  • sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
  • sunset industry — any industry that holds little promise of future development
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superintendency — a district or place under a superintendent.
  • superordination — Logic. the relation between a universal proposition and a particular proposition of the same quality containing the same terms in the same order.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • surgical needle — a needle for suturing.
  • surrender value — cash value.
  • sustained yield — the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • tank foundation — A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support the weight of oil tanks and contain spillage.
  • target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it
  • tax expenditure — any reduction in government revenue through preferential tax treatment, as deductions or credits.
  • tendentiousness — having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the daily round — the usual activities of one's day
  • the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
  • the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thought reading — mind reading.
  • thousand island — of or relating to the Thousand Islands or their inhabitants
  • thunderstricken — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • thursday island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 1½ sq. mi. (4 sq. km).
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
  • trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
  • training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
  • transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
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