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16-letter words containing s, l, i, n

  • sales commission — Sales commission is the percentage of the value of a sale that a sales associate or sales representative may earn.
  • sales resistance — the ability or inclination to refuse to buy a product, service, etc., offered.
  • san juan islands — a group of islands between NW Washington, US, and SE Vancouver Island, Canada: administratively part of Washington
  • sandwich islands — the Hawaiian Islands
  • satellite nation — a country under the domination of a foreign power
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • savings and loan — type of savings bank
  • savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
  • scandinavian lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • schouten islands — a group of islands belonging to Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific Oceans, off the N coast of New Guinea.
  • scribbling block — scratch pad.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • second childhood — senility; dotage.
  • secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
  • security analyst — a person who specializes in evaluating information regarding stocks and bonds.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-confinement — the act of confining.
  • self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • 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-disciplined — Someone who is self-disciplined has the ability to control themselves and to make themselves work hard or behave in a particular way without needing anyone else to tell them what to do.
  • self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
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