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16-letter words containing e, s, c, o, n

  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
  • 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.
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • 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.
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • social exclusion — Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • social insurance — any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, especially such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons.
  • social scientist — sb: studies human society
  • 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.
  • soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • sonoluminescence — the emission of a flash of light accompanying the bursting of a bubble in a liquid when sound waves are passed through the liquid.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
  • speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
  • splanchnopleural — 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.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • 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
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • state-controlled — controlled by the government
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stevenson screen — a shelter for meteorological instruments, consisting of a raised white louvred box
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stock controller — someone employed to monitor and manage goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available all the time
  • stock management — the monitoring and control of goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available at all times
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stockton-on-tees — a seaport in Cleveland, in NE England, near the mouth of the Tees River.
  • stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
  • 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.
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subconsciousness — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
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