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16-letter words containing s, m, i, r

  • spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
  • spring ephemeral — any of various woodland wildflowers that appear above ground in early spring, flower and fruit, and die in a short two-month period.
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • sprinkler system — apparatus for automatically extinguishing fires in a building, consisting of a system of water pipes in or below the ceilings, with valves or sprinklers usually made to open automatically at a certain temperature.
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stereomicroscope — stereoscopic microscope.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • stop-limit order — stop order.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
  • sub-postmistress — (in Britain) a woman who runs a sub-post office
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • sun-dried tomato — tomato dried in the sun
  • super-patriotism — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • supranationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • symmetric matrix — a matrix with the lower-left half equal to the mirror image of the upper-right half; a matrix that is its own transpose.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • sysdeco mimer ab — (company)   Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
  • systematic error — a persistent error that cannot be attributed to chance.
  • systemic grammar — a grammar in which description is founded on the relationships among the various units at different ranks of a language, and in which language is viewed as a system of meaning-creating choices
  • systems engineer — an engineer who specializes in the implementation of production systems.
  • t-carrier system — (communications)   A series of wideband digital data transmission formats originally developed by the Bell System and used in North America and Japan. The basic unit of the T-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit. Originally the 1.544 megabit per second T1 format carried 24 pulse-code modulated, time-division multiplexed speech signals each encoded in 64 kilobit per second streams, leaving 8 kilobits per second of framing information which facilitates the synchronisation and demultiplexing at the receiver. T2 and T3 circuits channels carry multiple T1 channels multiplexed, resulting in transmission rates of up to 44.736 Mbps. The T-carrier system uses in-band signaling, resulting in lower transmission rates than the E-carrier system. It uses a restored polar signal with 303-type data stations. Asynchronous signals can be transmitted via a standard which encodes each change of level into three bits; two which indicate the time (within the current synchronous frame) at which the transition occurred, and the third which indicates the direction of the transition. Although wasteful of line bandwidth, such use is usually only over small distances. T1 lines are made free of direct current signal components by in effect capacitor coupling the signal at the transmitter and restoring that lost component with a "slicer" at the receiver, leading to the description "restored polar".
  • taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
  • tamper-resistant — difficult to tamper with: a tamper-resistant cap on a medicine bottle.
  • tanimbar islands — a group of over 600 islands in E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea. About 2100 sq. mi. (5440 sq. km).
  • taurus mountains — a mountain range in S Turkey, parallel to the Mediterranean coast: crossed by the Cilician Gates; continued in the northeast by the Anti-Taurus range. Highest peak: Kaldi Dağ, 3734 m (12 251 ft)
  • terminal illness — A terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death.
  • terminus ad quem — the end to which; aim; goal; final or latest limiting point.
  • terms of service — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the marseillaise — the French national anthem. Words and music were composed in 1792 by C. J. Rouget de Lisle as a war song for the Rhine army of revolutionary France
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the tamil tigers — a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that sought to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka; they waged a military campaign until defeated in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army
  • the time is ripe — If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.
  • thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
  • thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
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