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16-letter words containing m, e, a, n, i

  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • 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-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • 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-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • 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
  • session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
  • 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.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • 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.
  • silent treatment — an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
  • simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
  • sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • 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.
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • 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.
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • 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 pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
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