16-letter words containing r, e, a, l, s, i
- self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
- self-referential — If you describe something such as a book or film as self-referential, you mean that it is concerned with things such as its own composition or with other similar books or films.
- self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
- self-sacrificial — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
- self-sacrificing — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
- self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
- semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
- service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
- sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
- shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
- shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
- shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
- shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
- signal generator — radio
- silent treatment — an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
- silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
- single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
- size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
- sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
- sleeping partner — silent partner.
- slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
- slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
- small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- 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.
- social secretary — a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.
- social structure — structure (def 9).
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- solid propellant — a rocket propellant in solid form, usually containing a mixture or combination of fuel and oxidizer.
- source materials — publications from which information is obtained
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- special clearing — (in Britain) the clearing of a cheque through a bank in less than the usual three days, for an additional charge
- special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
- special interest — special-interest group (def 1).