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14-letter words containing l, o, n, i, e, s

  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • saone-et-loire — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
  • school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
  • sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
  • sean o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • selenious acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, H 2 SeO 3 , used chiefly as a reagent.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-communion — (often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements. the elements of the Eucharist. the celebration of the Eucharist. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-confining — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
  • self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
  • self-consoling — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-poisoning — illness due to the taking of poison
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
  • self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semi-somnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
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