16-letter words containing m, e, c, l, o, n
- self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-confinement — the act of confining.
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
- self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
- 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.
- social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
- solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
- sonoluminescence — the emission of a flash of light accompanying the bursting of a bubble in a liquid when sound waves are passed through the liquid.
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
- stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
- steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
- teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
- telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- thalamencephalon — the diencephalon.
- the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- trichloromethane — chloroform (def 1).
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-recommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.