16-letter words containing s, i, m, n
- schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
- sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- self-confinement — the act of confining.
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
- self-determinism — a theory that every present state or condition of the self is a result of previous states or conditions of the self.
- self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- self-sustainment — self-supporting.
- self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
- semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- semi-independent — (of a political entity) having substantial self-government in regard to local matters but subordinate in such external matters as foreign policy; semiautonomous.
- semi-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
- semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
- semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
- semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
- senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
- session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
- settlement price — The settlement price is the average price of a financial instrument at the end of a trading day.
- severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
- sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
- shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
- silent treatment — an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
- simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
- simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
- simple extension — an extension field of a given field, obtained by forming all polynomials in a specified element with coefficients contained in the given field.
- simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
- singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
- sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.