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16-letter words containing s, o, n, i, l

  • smack one's lips — If you smack your lips, you open and close your mouth noisily, especially before or after eating, to show that you are eager to eat or enjoyed eating.
  • smoke inhalation — poisoning of the lungs caused by inhaling large quantities of toxic fumes from a fire
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
  • snorri sturluson — 1179–1241, Icelandic historian and poet.
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • social exclusion — Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
  • social gathering — party, get-together
  • social inclusion — Social inclusion is the act of making all groups of people within a society feel valued and important.
  • social insurance — any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, especially such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons.
  • social isolation — a state or process in which persons, groups, or cultures lose or do not have communication or cooperation with one another, often resulting in open conflict.
  • social scientist — sb: studies human society
  • sociolinguistics — the study of language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • soil conditioner — any of various organic or inorganic materials added to soil to improve its structure.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • solemn high mass — a Mass sung with the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
  • solid dispersion — Solid dispersion is the process of dispersing a solid through a liquid in order to increase contact.
  • solid propellant — a rocket propellant in solid form, usually containing a mixture or combination of fuel and oxidizer.
  • sonoluminescence — the emission of a flash of light accompanying the bursting of a bubble in a liquid when sound waves are passed through the liquid.
  • sony playstation — Playstation
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • south australian — a state in S Australia. 380,070 sq. mi. (984,380 sq. km). Capital: Adelaide.
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • south carolinian — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • spill one's guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
  • spinone italiano — one of an Italian breed of large all-purpose hunting dogs having a short wiry coat, solid white or white with light brown or yellow patches in color.
  • spiritualization — to make spiritual.
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
  • stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • 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.
  • storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
  • strict inclusion — the relation between two sets that obtains when all the members of the first are members of the second
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • sugar plantation — a large area of land where sugar is grown
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
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