14-letter words containing s, c, i, a, m
- quasi-complete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
- quasi-economic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- quasi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
- reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
- sado-masochism — Sado-masochism is the enjoyment of hurting people and being hurt.
- sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- scheme library — (library) (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
- schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
- schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
- scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
- scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
- seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- semi-automatic — partly automatic.
- semi-classical — of or relating to music by classical composers that is familiar or appealing to the general public.
- semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- semi-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- semi-socialism — a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- semicentennial — of or relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
- semicommercial — of, relating to, or characterized by limited marketing of an experimental product
- semielliptical — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
- semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
- semiologically — in a semiological manner; in a way that pertains to semiology
- semito-hamitic — a former name for the Afro-Asiatic family of languages
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.