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16-letter words containing s, e, r, u, l

  • 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-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
  • sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
  • shoulder harness — the part of a seat belt that goes over the shoulder and diagonally across the chest.
  • shoulder holster — a holster that is worn on the shoulder
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • 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).
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • south charleston — a city in W West Virginia.
  • southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • spiritual incest — marriage or a sexual relationship between persons related by spiritual affinity or with a person under a solemn vow of chastity
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • sql access group — (body)   The origanisaton which defined Call-Level Interface, on which ODBC is based. It is now part of X/Open.
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • striped squirrel — any squirrel with stripes on its back, as a chipmunk.
  • structural steel — the variety of steel shapes rolled for use in construction.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • sulu archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • sun in splendour — a representation of the sun with rays and a human face
  • superb blue wren — a small Australian bird, Malurus cyaneus, the adult male of which has bright blue plumage
  • superciliousness — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • superficialities — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • superserviceable — overly disposed to be of service; officious.
  • suprarenal gland — adrenal gland.
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