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15-letter words containing a, c, l, s, t

  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • saddle-stitched — having a binding in which the sections of a publication are inserted inside each other and secured through the middle fold with thread, or wire staples
  • saint celestine — Saint (Pietro di Murrone or Morone) 1215–96, Italian ascetic: pope 1294.
  • salem secretary — a tall cabinet having a recessed upper part fitted with drawers and shelves and a lower part with doors and a section falling or pulling out to serve as a writing surface.
  • sales associate — salesperson
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • samuel prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scala cordonata — a ramp having the form of broad, slightly inclined steps.
  • scaling circuit — an electronic device or circuit that aggregates electric pulses and gives a single output pulse for a predetermined number of input pulses
  • scared shitless — terrified
  • scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
  • scarlet tanager — an American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which is bright red with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
  • scheduled caste — (in India) the official name given to the lower castes that are now protected by the government and offered special concessions.
  • schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
  • schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
  • sclerodermatous — Zoology. covered with a hardened tissue, as scales.
  • scotch highland — any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands.
  • scottish gaelic — the Gaelic of the Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland, also spoken as a second language in Nova Scotia.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • self-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
  • self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-caricature — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-effacement — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
  • semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • semi-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
  • separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
  • sexual politics — the differences in the amount of power that male and female people have in a society or group
  • ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
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