16-letter words containing a, m, i, n, s, e
- semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
- senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- 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
- shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
- silent treatment — an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
- simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
- simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
- sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- 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.
- size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
- slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
- 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.
- small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
- snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
- snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
- social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
- 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 pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
- solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
- solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
- spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
- speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- spelling mistake — error in writing a word
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
- stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
- standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
- state-maintained — publicly funded
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
- subliminal image — an image used in advertising, etc, that is too quick to be registered by the mind but is used to influence the viewer unconsciously
- submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
- sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.