17-letter words containing s, o, l, m, n
- plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
- ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
- postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
- presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
- professional army — an army of trained soldiers
- radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
- recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
- recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
- reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
- roman catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church.
- saint elmo's fire — corona discharge.
- 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-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.
- semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
- senatus consultum — a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
- 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.
- sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
- smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
- social settlement — settlement (def 14).
- socioeconomically — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and economic factors: socioeconomic study; socioeconomic status.
- south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- spatial summation — the act or process of summing.
- stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
- stretch limousine — a limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating accommodation and more legroom
- suction lipectomy — the removal of fatty tissue by making a small incision in the skin, loosening the fat layer, and withdrawing it by suction.
- super-nationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
- superalimentation — nourishment; nutrition.
- supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
- supra-nationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
- telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
- the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
- the sound of mull — the water that separates the island of Mull from the mainland of Scotland
- thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- thiopental sodium — a barbiturate, C 11 H 18 N 2 NaO 2 S, used as an anesthetic in surgery and, in psychiatry, for narcoanalysis and to stimulate recall of past events.
- thompson seedless — a yellow, seedless variety of grape used in producing raisins.
- thomson's gazelle — a medium-sized antelope, Gazella thomsoni, abundant on the grassy steppes and dry bush of the East African plains.
- three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.