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15-letter words containing e, a, s, t, m, n

  • siege mentality — a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated.
  • silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
  • simple equation — linear equation
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
  • simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
  • sistine madonna — a Madonna painted by Raphael for the Church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, Italy.
  • sixth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.
  • small intestine — intestine (def 2).
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • sodium arsenite — a white or grayish-white, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaAsO 2 , used chiefly in arsenical soaps for hides, as an insecticide, and as a weed-killer.
  • sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
  • somerset island — an island in the Arctic Ocean in Nunavut, Canada, NW of Baffin Island. 9594 sq. mi. (24,848 sq. km).
  • spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
  • spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
  • stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
  • star-nosed mole — a North American mole, Condylura cristata, having a starlike ring of fleshy processes around the end of the snout.
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • steam generator — steam-producing power plant
  • steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
  • subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
  • systems analyst — A systems analyst is someone whose job is to decide what computer equipment and software a company needs, and to provide it.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
  • teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
  • temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
  • the santa maria — the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • thermanesthesia — loss of ability to feel cold or heat; loss of the sense or feeling of temperature.
  • tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
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