16-letter words containing e, s, c, o, p
- reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
- reprocessed wool — wool cloth respun and rewoven from the raveled fibers of unused cloth, such as the waste or clippings from a garment factory
- restriction play — a limited number of opening moves that are predetermined by their chance selection from an accepted list.
- reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
- rochelle powders — (not in technical use) Seidlitz powders.
- schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
- school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
- score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- sense perception — perception by the senses rather than by the intellect.
- service provider — company: provides internet
- shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
- shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- 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.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- 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.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
- specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- spectrobolometer — an instrument consisting of a spectroscope and a bolometer, for determining the distribution of radiant energy in a spectrum.
- spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
- 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.
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- sql access group — (body) The origanisaton which defined Call-Level Interface, on which ODBC is based. It is now part of X/Open.
- 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