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16-letter words containing n, e, s, t, c

  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
  • self-subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • 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
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • sensationalistic — subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
  • sense perception — perception by the senses rather than by the intellect.
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • sesquicentennial — pertaining to or marking the completion of a period of 150 years.
  • settlement price — The settlement price is the average price of a financial instrument at the end of a trading day.
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • sexual selection — a special type of natural selection in which the sexes acquire distinct forms either because the members of one sex choose mates with particular features or because in the competition for mates among the members of one sex only those with certain traits succeed.
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
  • 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.
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • social scientist — sb: studies human society
  • 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.
  • soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • sonata da chiesa — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, that usually consists of four movements alternating between slow and fast.
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • spanish chestnut — Castanea sativa
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