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16-letter words containing s, p, o, n, r

  • serpentine front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a horizontal compound curve with a convex section between two concave ones.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • slip one over on — to hoodwink or trick
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • solar prominence — prominence (def 3).
  • 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.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • spear-head spoon — diamond-point spoon.
  • specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spiritualization — to make spiritual.
  • spiritus vinosus — (in prescriptions) spirits of wine; alcohol.
  • splanchnopleural — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • sports equipment — gear used to play sport
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • start-up company — new business
  • stationary point — a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • 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.
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
  • subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • 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.
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • sun in splendour — a representation of the sun with rays and a human face
  • super-injunction — an instruction or order issued by a court imposing restrictions on reporting, including any reference to the restriction itself
  • superciliousness — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superior general — the superior of an order or congregation.
  • supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • supranationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
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