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14-letter words containing s, i, n, c, e

  • second reading — the stage in the consideration of a legislative bill that provides an opportunity for debate and amendment.
  • second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
  • second sitting — A second sitting is the second period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • sectionization — the act or state of being sectionized
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
  • sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • selenious acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous powder, H 2 SeO 3 , used chiefly as a reagent.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-communion — (often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements. the elements of the Eucharist. the celebration of the Eucharist. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-confining — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
  • self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
  • self-consoling — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-enriching — to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
  • self-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
  • self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-inclusive — including oneself or itself.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-inflicted — inflicted by oneself upon oneself: a self-inflicted wound.
  • self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
  • selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semicentennial — of or relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
  • semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
  • senior citizen — an elderly or aged person, especially one who is retired.
  • senior service — the Royal Navy
  • sequaciousness — the condition or quality of being sequacious
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • sericitization — the process of transforming into sericite
  • seroconversion — the process of producing antibodies in response to a specific antigen
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