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16-letter words containing a, c, i, s

  • session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
  • sexual selection — a special type of natural selection in which the sexes acquire distinct forms either because the members of one sex choose mates with particular features or because in the competition for mates among the members of one sex only those with certain traits succeed.
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
  • shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
  • sick as a parrot — very disappointed
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • social exclusion — Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • social inclusion — Social inclusion is the act of making all groups of people within a society feel valued and important.
  • social insurance — any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, especially such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons.
  • social isolation — a state or process in which persons, groups, or cultures lose or do not have communication or cooperation with one another, often resulting in open conflict.
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • social scientist — sb: studies human society
  • social secretary — a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.
  • social structure — structure (def 9).
  • 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 cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • somatic mutation — a mutation occurring in a somatic cell, resulting in a change in the morphology or some other aspect of one part of an organism (usually a plant). It may be maintained by vegetative propagation but not by sexual reproduction
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
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