17-letter words containing s, c, i, l, m
- seminal principle — a potential, latent within an imperfect object, for attaining full development.
- septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
- shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
- silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
- simple microscope — a microscope having a single lens.
- simplicity itself — If you say that something is simplicity itself, you are emphasizing that it is very simple or easy.
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
- social democratic — A social democratic party is a political party whose principles are based on social democracy.
- social settlement — settlement (def 14).
- socialist realism — a state-approved artistic or literary style in some socialist countries, as the U.S.S.R., that characteristically celebrates an idealized vision of the life and industriousness of the workers.
- socioeconomically — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and economic factors: socioeconomic study; socioeconomic status.
- sodium salicylate — a white, crystalline compound, C 7 H 5 NaO 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and glycerol: used in medicine as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory, and as a preservative.
- sparc xterminal 1 — (computer) Sun's lowest cost networked Unix desktop, it is board-upgradeable to a SPARC 4. It comes with a choice of frame buffers: 8-bit colour, Turbo GX, or Turbo GX plus. This product was expected to replace the SPARCclassic X. UK availability was planned for March 1995.
- special committee — a committee, as of a legislative body, that is formed to examine and report on a specific bill or issue.
- special messenger — a postal worker who delivers mail by special delivery
- spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
- stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
- stretch limousine — a limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating accommodation and more legroom
- suction lipectomy — the removal of fatty tissue by making a small incision in the skin, loosening the fat layer, and withdrawing it by suction.
- supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
- symbolic assembly — (language) An early system on the IBM 705.
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- telescopic damper — a device with telescopic parts that reduce vibration in a motor vehicle
- textual criticism — lower criticism.
- transcendentalism — transcendental character, thought, or language.
- triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
- trucial sheikdoms — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- uncircumscribable — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- uncompassionately — having or showing compassion: a compassionate person; a compassionate letter.
- unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
- utopian socialism — (sometimes initial capital letter) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- vehicle emissions — substances emitted from a vehicle as a result of internal combustion
- velaric airstream — a current of mouth air produced by the action of the tongue, operant in forming click sounds.
- welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
- well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.