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14-letter words containing s, i, m, c, a, r

  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • pyramid scheme — pyramid (def 8).
  • quasi-criminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
  • reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
  • reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
  • sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semi-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
  • semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • semicommercial — of, relating to, or characterized by limited marketing of an experimental product
  • service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
  • simchath torah — a Jewish festival, celebrated on the 23rd day of Tishri, being the 9th day of Sukkoth, that marks the completion of the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah in the synagogue and the beginning of the new cycle.
  • smart sanction — a sanction intended to affect only a particular area of a country's activities or economy
  • smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
  • social realism — a style of painting, especially of the 1930s in the U.S., in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire.
  • sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • sparring match — a practice boxing match
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • spirit compass — a wet compass filled with a mixture of alcohol and water.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stomatogastric — relating to the mouth and stomach or the connections between the mouth and stomach
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