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18-letter words containing s, i, m, l, a, r

  • seasonal promotion — Seasonal promotions are items marketed to customers at the appropriate time of year, such as coats in the winter and bathing suits in the summer.
  • self-advertisement — a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, etc.
  • self-determination — determination by oneself or itself, without outside influence.
  • self-disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • self-entertainment — the act of entertaining; agreeable occupation for the mind; diversion; amusement: Solving the daily crossword puzzle is an entertainment for many.
  • self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
  • self-incrimination — the act of incriminating oneself or exposing oneself to prosecution, especially by giving evidence or testimony.
  • self-mortification — the inflicting of pain or privation on oneself: He was certain that self-mortification was the only road to salvation.
  • self-recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
  • semi-microanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • semicircular canal — any of the three curved tubular canals in the labyrinth of the ear, associated with the sense of equilibrium.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • simple enumeration — a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
  • slow-motion replay — a showing again in slow motion of a sequence of action, esp of part of a sporting contest immediately after it happens
  • small claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
  • small-claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
  • social bookmarking — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • social environment — the environment developed by humans as contrasted with the natural environment; society as a whole, especially in its relation to the individual.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • soda-lime feldspar — plagioclase.
  • sodium-vapour lamp — a type of electric lamp consisting of a glass tube containing neon and sodium vapour at low pressure through which an electric current is passed to give an orange light. They are used in street lighting
  • solomon rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
  • spectropolarimeter — an instrument for determining the extent to which plane-polarized light of various wavelengths is rotated by certain solutions, consisting of a combination of a spectroscope and a polarimeter.
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
  • to raise the alarm — If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger.
  • transition element — any element in any of the series of elements with atomic numbers 21–29, 39–47, 57–79, and 89–107, that in a given inner orbital has less than a full quota of electrons.
  • traveling salesman — a male representative of a business firm who travels in an assigned territory soliciting orders for a company's products or services.
  • tristimulus values — three values that together are used to describe a colour and are the amounts of three reference colours that can be mixed to give the same visual sensation as the colour considered
  • upper middle class — wealthy, highly-educated people
  • wandering minstrel — travelling performer
  • watson-crick model — a widely accepted model for the three-dimensional structure of DNA, featuring a double-helix configuration for the molecule's two hydrogen-bonded complementary polynucleotide strands.
  • withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
  • women's liberation — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
  • world championship — an international competition in a particular sport or activity for people all around the world
  • wrangell mountains — a mountain range in SE Alaska, extending into the Yukon, Canada. Highest peak: Mount Blackburn, 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust
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