16-letter words containing g, e, n, s, i, c
- service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
- shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
- shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
- shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
- shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- 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.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- social gathering — party, get-together
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- special clearing — (in Britain) the clearing of a cheque through a bank in less than the usual three days, for an additional charge
- special handling — (in the U.S. Postal Service) the handling of third- and fourth-class mail as first-class upon the payment of a fee.
- special pleading — Law. pleading that alleges special or new matter in avoidance of the allegations made by the opposite side.
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
- 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.
- standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
- sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
- stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
- stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
- string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
- student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
- subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
- surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
- surface-printing — planography.
- swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
- syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
- transfer pricing — the setting of a price for the transfer of raw materials, components, products, or services between the trading units of a large organization
- tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
- velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
- vertical tasting — a tasting of different vintages of one particular wine.
- viceregal assent — the formal signing of an act of parliament by a governor general, by which it becomes law
- vincent's angina — a disease characterized by ulceration of the mucosa of the tonsils, pharynx, and mouth, by the presence of abundant bacilli and spirochetes, and by the development of a membrane.
- visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
- walking distance — distance that can easily be walked