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16-letter words containing o, n, e, l, i, r

  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • 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.
  • sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • signal generator — radio
  • 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.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • social insurance — any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, especially such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons.
  • soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • solid dispersion — Solid dispersion is the process of dispersing a solid through a liquid in order to increase contact.
  • solid propellant — a rocket propellant in solid form, usually containing a mixture or combination of fuel and oxidizer.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
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