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16-letter words containing d, e, m

  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • 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 messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • 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.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-determinism — a theory that every present state or condition of the self is a result of previous states or conditions of the self.
  • self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • semi-independent — (of a political entity) having substantial self-government in regard to local matters but subordinate in such external matters as foreign policy; semiautonomous.
  • semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
  • sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • 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.
  • smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • so help me (god) — I swear
  • social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
  • 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.
  • sodium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • stand to someone — to be useful to someone
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • state department — state (def 12).
  • state-maintained — publicly funded
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
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