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14-letter words containing n, i, c, e, o, s

  • salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scented orchid — a slender orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, with fragrant pink flowers carried in a dense spike and having a three-lobed lip; found in calcareous turf
  • schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
  • schizo-phrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • school edition — a special edition of a book for distribution to schools or colleges, subject to a special rate of discount, sometimes without a dust jacket (distinguished from trade edition).
  • schoolchildren — a child attending school.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
  • sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
  • screen popping — (communications)   The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
  • screening room — a room where films are screened for a private audience
  • scsi reconnect — (hardware)   The ability of a SCSI initiator to initiate new transactions before earlier ones have completed. A target or initiator can disconnect from the bus when it experiences a delay in completing a task so that another device can use the bus. It can reconnect later and complete the task.
  • second opinion — view of another expert
  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
  • second sitting — A second sitting is the second period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • sectionization — the act or state of being sectionized
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • selenious acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, H 2 SeO 3 , used chiefly as a reagent.
  • self-communion — (often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements. the elements of the Eucharist. the celebration of the Eucharist. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-confining — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
  • self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
  • self-consoling — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
  • semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • senior citizen — an elderly or aged person, especially one who is retired.
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