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16-letter words containing d, e, a, c, o

  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • scar tissue code — (humour, programming)   Old code that is commented out but still included in the current release.
  • school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • second adventist — Adventist (def 1).
  • second amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia.
  • second world war — World War II.
  • 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 cancer — a cancerous growth in some part of the body away from the site of the original tumour
  • secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
  • 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 modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secondary source — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared resources — the sharing of peripherals among several terminals
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • 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.
  • social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • 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 cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • 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
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • sysdeco mimer ab — (company)   Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • tax depreciation — Tax depreciation is depreciation in a company's internal financial records that is different from the amount that is used for the internal books.
  • ten commandments — Bible: instructions given to Moses
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
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