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15-letter words containing o, m, t, i, c

  • scpi consortium — (body)   A body established to promote Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments. Address: 8380 Hercules Drive, Suite P3, La Mesa, CA 91942, USA.
  • secret mosquito — a high-pitched ringtone for a mobile phone, claimed by its distributors to be inaudible to most adults while remaining audible to children and teenagers
  • self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • self-commitment — the act of committing.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • semilogarithmic — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • social democrat — a person who advocates a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • socratic method — the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition.
  • sodium chlorate — a colorless, water-soluble solid, NaClO 3 , cool and salty to the taste, used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives and matches, as a textile mordant, and as an oxidizing and bleaching agent.
  • sodium citrates — the sodium salts of citric acid (monosodium citrate, disodium citrate, trisodium citrate)
  • sodium silicate — a substance having the general formula, Na2O.xSiO2, where x varies between 3 and 5, existing as an amorphous powder or present in a usually viscous aqueous solution
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • sports medicine — a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
  • state socialism — the theory, doctrine, and movement advocating a planned economy controlled by the state, with state ownership of all industries and natural resources.
  • statutory crime — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • steering column — the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear assembly of an automotive vehicle.
  • stereochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the relative positions in space of the atoms or groups of atoms in a compound and with the effects of these positions on the properties of the compound.
  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • symptomatically — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • symptomological — relating to symptomology
  • tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
  • thanatognomonic — signalling the nearness of death
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
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