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16-letter words containing s, e, r, o, a

  • save as you earn — (in Britain) a savings scheme which offers a tax-free bonus and allows employees to buy shares in the company they work for at a fixed price
  • scar tissue code — (humour, programming)   Old code that is commented out but still included in the current release.
  • schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • second world war — World War II.
  • second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
  • secondary accent — a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
  • secondary cancer — a cancerous growth in some part of the body away from the site of the original tumour
  • secondary colour — a colour formed by mixing two primary colours
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • secondary school — a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.
  • secondary source — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • secondary stress — Engineering. a stress induced by the elastic deformation of a structure under a temporary load.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • sekondi-takoradi — a seaport in SW Ghana.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
  • separate opinion — an opinion written by a judge separately from other judges, which can either agree or disagree with the opinion written by the majority of judges
  • series resonance — the resonance that results when circuit elements are connected with their inductance and capacitance in series, so that the impedance of the combination falls to a minimum at the resonant frequency
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
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