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16-letter words containing m, o, r, s, e, l

  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • 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.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
  • slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
  • smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
  • 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 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).
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • spectrobolometer — an instrument consisting of a spectroscope and a bolometer, for determining the distribution of radiant energy in a spectrum.
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • 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.
  • stop-limit order — stop order.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • 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.
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
  • torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
  • trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
  • voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
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