14-letter words containing s, o, i, l, c, r
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
- pre-conclusion — the end or close; final part.
- precious coral — red coral.
- precious metal — a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.
- price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- pro-capitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prognostically — of or relating to prognosis.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- race relations — relationships between races
- racing colours — the colours painted on a racing car to represent the nation of the car or driver
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
- ridiculousness — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
- school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
- school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
- schoolchildren — a child attending school.
- schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
- self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.