16-letter words containing m, a, r, s, i, l
- professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- pullorum disease — a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
- quasi-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- radial (arm) saw — a circular saw suspended from a pivoted horizontal arm along which it can be moved
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
- real-time pascal — (language) A later name for Pascal-80 by RC International, Denmark.
- real-time system — a data-processing system in which a computer receives constantly changing data, such as information relating to air-traffic control, travel booking systems, etc, and processes it sufficiently rapidly to be able to control the source of the data
- residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
- richard stallman — (person) Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- royal commission — (in Britain) a body set up by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister to gather information about the operation of existing laws or to investigate any social, educational, or other matter. The commission has prescribed terms of reference and reports to the government on how any change might be achieved
- sacrificial lamb — If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group.
- sailmaker's palm — palm1 (def 4).
- saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- salivary amylase — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- sault ste. marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
- saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
- scarlet clematis — a slightly woody vine, Clematis texensis, of Texas, having bluish-green leaves, plumed fruit, and solitary, urn-shaped, scarlet-to-pink flowers.
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- sealyham terrier — one of a Welsh breed of small terriers having short legs, a docked tail, and a wiry, mostly white coat.
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
- semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
- 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
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
- size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
- slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
- 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
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
- source materials — publications from which information is obtained
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- 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.
- square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.