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15-letter words containing c, o, d, n, s

  • secondary group — a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.
  • secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
  • secondary xylem — xylem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secundogeniture — the state of being the second born child
  • self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • 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-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • septendecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 54 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 102 zeros.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • silicon dioxide — the dioxide form of silicon, SiO 2 , occurring especially as quartz sand, flint, and agate: used usually in the form of its prepared white powder chiefly in the manufacture of glass, water glass, ceramics, and abrasives.
  • social distance — the extent to which individuals or groups are removed from or excluded from participating in one another's lives.
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social dynamics — the study of social processes, especially social change.
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • social standing — a person's status or social class in society
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • society islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific: administratively part of French Polynesia; consists of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; became a French protectorate in 1843 and a colony in 1880. Pop: 214 445 (2002). Area: 1595 sq km (616 sq miles)
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • solid injection — injection of fuel into an internal-combustion engine without an air blast.
  • sound recordist — recordist.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
  • special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
  • speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
  • sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • state education — education provided by the state; education which is not private
  • student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
  • studio audience — spectators on a TV set
  • subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • 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.
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • to change hands — When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.
  • to one's credit — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
  • to sb's defence — If you come to someone's defence, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
  • tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
  • ultrasound scan — sonograph examination
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