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16-letter words containing e, m, p, a, c

  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • state capitalism — a form of capitalism in which the central government controls most of the capital, industry, natural resources, etc.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • to compare notes — If you compare notes with someone on a particular subject, you talk to them and find out whether their opinion, information, or experience is the same as yours.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
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