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17-letter words containing s, i, l, o

  • semi-monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
  • semi-professional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • sensory paralysis — impairment or loss of sensation in a part or area of the body
  • settlement option — any of the options, other than immediate payment in a lump sum, by which the policyholder or beneficiary may choose to have the benefits of a policy paid.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
  • sheltered housing — accommodation designed esp for the elderly or infirm consisting of a group of individual premises, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • shit on a shingle — creamed chipped beef or ground beef in a sauce, served on toast.
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
  • silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
  • silicon rectifier — a rectifier consisting of a semiconductor diode using crystalline silicon
  • silver collection — a collection that consists of silver coins that is made at a meeting etc
  • simple microscope — a microscope having a single lens.
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • sinus of valsalva — any of the pouches of the aorta and the pulmonary artery opposite the flaps of the semilunar valves into which blood returning to the heart flows, closing the valves.
  • sister of loretto — a member of a congregation of sisters founded at Loretto, Kentucky, in 1812 and engaged in educational and missionary works.
  • situational irony — irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
  • six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
  • sleeper terrorist — a terrorist who is not currently active but assumes a guise in order to be in position, unsuspected, for future terrorist activities
  • sleeping position — the position that you sleep in
  • sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
  • slenderness ratio — aspect ratio (def 4a).
  • slenderness-ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the span of an airfoil to its mean chord.
  • slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
  • slip-joint pliers — pliers having a sliding joint, permitting the span of the jaws to be adjusted.
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
  • social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
  • social assistance — welfare program
  • social conscience — the state of being aware of the problems that affect a lot of people in society, such as being poor or having no home, and wanting to do something to help these people
  • social democratic — A social democratic party is a political party whose principles are based on social democracy.
  • social enterprise — a business organization that works to benefit society as a whole
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
  • 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.
  • socially excluded — suffering from social exclusion
  • socially included — benefiting from social inclusion
  • socioeconomically — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and economic factors: socioeconomic study; socioeconomic status.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
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