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16-letter words containing s, c, i, u

  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • secured creditor — a creditor who has a secured loan
  • security analyst — a person who specializes in evaluating information regarding stocks and bonds.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • security measure — a precaution taken against terrorism, espionage or other danger
  • security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
  • security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
  • seleucia trachea — an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)
  • self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
  • self-sufficiency — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
  • self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • sesquicentennial — pertaining to or marking the completion of a period of 150 years.
  • session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
  • sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
  • sexual selection — a special type of natural selection in which the sexes acquire distinct forms either because the members of one sex choose mates with particular features or because in the competition for mates among the members of one sex only those with certain traits succeed.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • 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.
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • social exclusion — Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
  • social inclusion — Social inclusion is the act of making all groups of people within a society feel valued and important.
  • 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 structure — structure (def 9).
  • society of jesus — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
  • sociolinguistics — the study of language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables.
  • 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 cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
  • 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
  • sonoluminescence — the emission of a flash of light accompanying the bursting of a bubble in a liquid when sound waves are passed through the liquid.
  • sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
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