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14-letter words containing a, s, g, e

  • sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
  • sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • saxe-meiningen — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • screen sharing — audiographic teleconferencing
  • screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • sea gooseberry — a comb jelly, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia.
  • sea of galilee — a lake in NE Israel, 209 m (686 ft) below sea level, through which the River Jordan flows. Area: 165 sq km (64 sq miles)
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • seeing as/that — You can use seeing that or seeing as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • segregationist — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
  • self-annealing — denoting certain metals, such as lead, tin, and zinc, that recrystallize at air temperatures and so may be cold-worked without strain-hardening
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
  • selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
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