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17-letter words containing s, i, n, u, t

  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • samurai tradition — the body of customs, thought, practices, etc belonging to the samurai warrior caste of Japan
  • san quentin quail — jailbait.
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • saturation diving — a method of prolonged diving, using an underwater habitat to allow divers to remain in the high-pressure environment of the ocean depths long enough for their body tissues to become saturated with the inert components of the pressurized gas mixture that they breathe: when this condition is reached, the amount of time required for decompression remains the same, whether the dive lasts a day, a week, or a month.
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • scan-in, scan-out — scan design
  • second lieutenant — an Army, Air Force, or Marine officer of the lowest commissioned rank. Compare ensign (def 4).
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • self-constituting — to compose; form: mortar constituted of lime and sand.
  • self-introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • self-purification — a natural process of purifying, as the ability of a body of water to rid itself of pollutants.
  • self-renunciation — renunciation of one's own will, interests, etc.
  • self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
  • semi-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • semi-quantitative — partially quantitative.
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • sentimental value — personal, emotional significance
  • separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
  • sequential access — of or relating to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file.
  • sequential-access — of or relating to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file.
  • 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
  • shipping industry — the industry concerned with transporting freight, esp by ship
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • show in (or out) — to usher into (or out of) a given place
  • sign in (or out) — to sign a register on arrival (or departure)
  • silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
  • single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
  • sir arthur harden — Sir Arthur, 1865–1940, English biochemist: Nobel Prize 1929.
  • 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.
  • situations vacant — Situations Vacant is the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised.
  • sixty-fourth note — a note having one sixty-fourth of the time value of a whole note; hemidemisemiquaver.
  • skin of our teeth — a play (1942) by Thornton Wilder.
  • sleeping quarters — the rooms where people sleep in a large building or complex or on a boat etc
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • snowmass mountain — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains: ski resorts. 14,092 feet (4295 meters).
  • 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
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • sodium propionate — a transparent, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 3 H 5 NaO 2 , used in foodstuffs to prevent mold growth, and in medicine as a fungicide.
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • southern rhodesia — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
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