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14-letter words containing i, l, d, s

  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-satisfied — feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • semper fidelis — always faithful
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • sesquipedalian — given to using long words.
  • sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
  • sesquipedality — given to using long words.
  • sesquisulphide — a sulphide containing three sulphur atoms to two of some other element
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
  • shield cricket — the interstate cricket competition held for the Sheffield Shield
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • shooting lodge — a country house providing accommodation for a shooting party during the shooting season
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • shropshire lad — a volume of poetry (1896) by A. E. Housman.
  • side-splitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • sidi-bel-abbes — a city in NW Algeria.
  • siegfried line — a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
  • signed english — a form of communication employing the signs of American Sign Language but using English grammar in place of ASL syntax and using invented forms for English grammatical elements, such as of, to, the, and -ing, where no ASL sign exists.
  • silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • simplex method — a numerical method for solving problems in linear programming.
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • single density — a disk with the normal capacity for storage
  • single-engined — (of an aircraft) having only one engine
  • single-hearted — sincere and undivided in feeling or spirit; dedicated; not reflecting mixed emotions: He was single-hearted in his patriotism.
  • siraj-ud-daula — 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.
  • skiing holiday — a holiday taken (esp to somewhere that it snows) for the purpose of going skiing
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • slant drilling — Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of usually 30° to 45°.
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • sld resolution — (logic, programming)   (Selected, Linear, Definite) Linear resolution with a selection function for definite sentences. A definite sentence has exactly one positive literal in each clause and this literal is selected to be resolved upon, i.e. replaced in the goal clause by the conjunction of negative literals which form the body of the clause.
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
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