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16-letter words containing i, t, e, m

  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • semi-independent — (of a political entity) having substantial self-government in regard to local matters but subordinate in such external matters as foreign policy; semiautonomous.
  • semi-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
  • semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
  • semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
  • semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
  • senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • settlement price — The settlement price is the average price of a financial instrument at the end of a trading day.
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
  • siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • silent treatment — an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
  • silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
  • simple extension — an extension field of a given field, obtained by forming all polynomials in a specified element with coefficients contained in the given field.
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • sodium methylate — a white, free-flowing, flammable powder, CH 3 ONa, decomposed by water to sodium hydroxide and methyl alcohol: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • 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.
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