15-letter words containing g, e, s, t, i, c
- self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
- semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
- shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- singing teacher — a teacher who gives instruction in how to sing
- single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
- situs picketing — common situs picketing.
- smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
- social heritage — the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.
- social register — a directory or list of people prominent in the fashionable society of a given area
- sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
- southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
- speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
- speeding ticket — notice of traffic violation
- 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.
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- stage direction — an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.
- standing charge — fixed energy costs
- steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
- stereologically — by way of stereology or in a stereological manner
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
- subintelligence — below average intelligence
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
- surgical strike — a military action designed to destroy a particular target without harming other people or damaging other buildings near it
- symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
- 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.
- synergistically — pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling synergy: a synergistic effect.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- text processing — the handling of alphabetic characters by a computer
- tintagel castle — a ruined castle on a promontory in SW England on the W coast of Cornwall, which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- training course — practical programme of study
- training scheme — a scheme for teaching people skills in a particular field or profession
- vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent