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17-letter words containing s, c, a, g

  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • precision casting — investment casting.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
  • psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • railroad crossing — place for vehicles to cross train tracks
  • rectangle slinger — polygon pusher
  • reed canary grass — any of various grasses of the genus Phalaris, as P. canariensis, native to the Canary Islands, bearing seed used as food for cage birds, or P. arundinacea (reed canary grass) used throughout the Northern Hemisphere as fodder.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • scarlet lightning — scarlet lychnis.
  • schiff-s--reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • screaming meemies — extreme nervous tension
  • screaming-meemies — extreme nervousness; hysteria (usually preceded by the).
  • sea grant college — a college or university doing research on marine resources under the U.S. National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966.
  • second generation — being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country: the oldest son of second-generation Americans.
  • second-generation — being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country: the oldest son of second-generation Americans.
  • secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
  • secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
  • secondary winding — A secondary winding is the winding of a transformer that receives its energy by electromagnetic induction from the primary winding.
  • secretary-general — the head or chief administrative officer of a secretariat.
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
  • self-significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • sentence fragment — a phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
  • septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • shooting practice — practice in shooting for soldiers or other people who shoot guns
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • significance test — (in hypothesis testing) a test of whether the alternative hypothesis achieves the predetermined significance level in order to be accepted in preference to the null hypothesis
  • significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
  • solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
  • special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
  • special privilege — exclusive advantage
  • special schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
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