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16-letter words containing g, l, e, n, r

  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-registering — registering automatically, as an instrument; self-recording.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-sacrificing — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • signal generator — radio
  • singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • sleeping partner — silent partner.
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • special clearing — (in Britain) the clearing of a cheque through a bank in less than the usual three days, for an additional charge
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • springer spaniel — a dog of either of two breeds of medium-sized spaniels, used for flushing and retrieving game.
  • standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
  • sterling heights — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • suprarenal gland — adrenal gland.
  • 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.
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
  • tephrochronology — a geochronologic technique based on the dating of layers of volcanic ash.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the gentle craft — fishing
  • the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
  • theatrical agent — an intermediary who brings together actors who are seeking work and theatre producers who are offering parts
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
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