16-letter words containing s, n, u, f, o
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
- sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
- self-consequence — self-important character or quality; self-importance.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
- self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
- soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
- soft furnishings — home fabrics
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
- subjectification — to make subjective.
- sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
- sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
- touch of the sun — slight sunstroke
- windsor, duke of — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
- women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty