16-letter words containing d, e, s
- semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
- send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
- sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
- sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
- serra da estrela — a mountain range in N central Portugal. Highest peak, Malhão da Estrela, 6532 feet (1991 meters).
- service industry — business providing a service
- service provider — company: provides internet
- seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
- sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
- sexual deviation — a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism.
- shake one's head — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- share and enjoy! — 1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements and README files, this phrase indicates allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see hacker ethic). 2. The motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent suits) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal appeals to freeware hackers.
- shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
- shared resources — the sharing of peripherals among several terminals
- sheffield shield — (in Australia) the former name for the trophy of the annual interstate cricket competition
- shepherd's check — a pattern of even checks, used in a variety of fabrics.
- shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
- shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
- shepherd's-purse — a European weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, having white flowers and purselike pods, naturalized in North America.
- shoot one's load — (of a man) to ejaculate at orgasm
- shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
- short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
- shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
- shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
- shoulder holster — a holster that is worn on the shoulder
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- 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.
- show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
- shut the door on — to refuse to think about
- 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.
- single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
- sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
- 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.
- sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
- slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
- 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.