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16-letter words containing o, n, m, a

  • second amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • 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.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • semi-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
  • session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
  • simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • 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.
  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • 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.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • somatic mutation — a mutation occurring in a somatic cell, resulting in a change in the morphology or some other aspect of one part of an organism (usually a plant). It may be maintained by vegetative propagation but not by sexual reproduction
  • sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • south vietnamese — of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants
  • spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • speak one's mind — give one's frank opinion
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
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