15-letter words containing e, s, c, o, n
- special edition — newspaper, magazine: extra issue
- special session — a session, as of a legislature or council, called to meet in addition to those held regularly.
- speed indicator — an instrument for counting the number of revolutions of a gasoline engine.
- spinous process — a spinelike process of a bone, especially the dorsal projection from the center of the arch of a vertebra.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
- spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
- stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- star connection — a connection used in a polyphase electrical device or system of devices in which the windings each have one end connected to a common junction, the star point, and the other end to a separate terminal
- state education — education provided by the state; education which is not private
- station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
- steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
- storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- student council — a representative body composed chiefly of students chosen by their classmates to organize social and extracurricular activities and to participate in the government of a school or college.
- studio audience — spectators on a TV set
- subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
- subintellection — an implication that is more or less understood
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
- succinylcholine — a drug, C14H30N2O4, used primarily as a muscle relaxant, produced by the esterization of succinic acid with choline
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superexcitation — the act of exciting.
- supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- synecdochically — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- synectics group — a group of people of varied background that meets to attempt creative solutions of problems through the unrestricted exercise of imagination and the correlation of disparate elements.
- take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- technostructure — the group or class of technically skilled administrators, scientists, and engineers who manage and influence business, the economy, and government affairs.
- telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
- ten-weeks stock — a stock, Matthiola incana annua, of the mustard family, having spikes of white, lilac, or crimson flowers.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- terror-stricken — overwhelmed by terror; terrified.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
- the ocean state — the US state of Rhode Island