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16-letter words containing c, o, r, n, e, t

  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • round the corner — close at hand
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • sangre de cristo — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Blanca Peak, 14,390 feet (4385 meters).
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • sense perception — perception by the senses rather than by the intellect.
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • 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.
  • soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • state-controlled — controlled by the government
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stevenson screen — a shelter for meteorological instruments, consisting of a raised white louvred box
  • stock controller — someone employed to monitor and manage goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available all the time
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
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