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17-letter words containing s, m, o

  • ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
  • roving commission — authority or power given in a general area, without precisely defined terms of reference
  • sacra romana rota — the official name of the Rota.
  • sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
  • saint elmo's fire — corona discharge.
  • saint-simonianism — the socialist system advocated by the Comte de Saint-Simon
  • samurai tradition — the body of customs, thought, practices, etc belonging to the samurai warrior caste of Japan
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
  • schmidt telescope — a wide-angle reflecting telescope used primarily for astronomical photography, in which spherical aberration and coma are reduced to a minimum by means of a spherical mirror with a corrector plate near its focus.
  • scientific method — a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
  • second-hand smoke — from sb else's cigarette
  • second-in-command — A second-in-command is someone who is next in rank to the leader of a group, and who has authority to give orders when the leader is not there.
  • see someone right — to ensure fair treatment of (someone)
  • self-commendation — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • self-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • semi-monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
  • semi-professional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • semidetached mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project development somewhere between organic and embedded. The team members have a mixture of experienced and inexperienced personnel. The software to be developed has some characteristics of both organic and embedded modes. Semidetached software can be as large as 300K DSIs.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • semisophisticated — somewhat sophisticated.
  • senatus consultum — a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
  • senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
  • set one's mind on — to be determined on or determinedly desirous of
  • settlement houses — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • settlement option — any of the options, other than immediate payment in a lump sum, by which the policyholder or beneficiary may choose to have the benefits of a policy paid.
  • settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • short-term memory — information retained in the brain and retrievable from it over a brief span of time (contrasted with long-term memory).
  • shorter catechism — one of the two catechisms established by the Westminster Assembly in 1647, used chiefly in Presbyterian churches.
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • simple microscope — a microscope having a single lens.
  • sixth commandment — “Thou shalt not kill”: sixth of the Ten Commandments.
  • sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
  • smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • smoothing circuit — a circuit used to remove ripple from the output of a direct current power supply
  • snatch one's time — to leave a job, taking whatever pay is due
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