14-letter words containing t, a, r, i, n, s
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- saone-et-loire — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
- sarit thanarat — 1908–63, Thai statesman: premier 1952–63.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- screen trading — a form of trading on a market or exchange in which the visual display unit of a computer replaces personal contact as in floor trading
- scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scsi initiator — (hardware) A device that begins a SCSI transaction by issuing a command to another device (the SCSI target), giving it a task to perform. Typically a SCSI host adapter is the initiator but targets may also become initiators.
- scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
- seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
- segregationist — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
- seine-et-marne — a department in N France. 2290 sq. mi. (5930 sq. km). Capital: Melun.
- seine-maritime — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
- selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
- semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- senior partner — high-ranking firm partner
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
- sericitization — the process of transforming into sericite
- serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- set on its ear — to cause excitement, upheaval, etc. in
- sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
- shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- shooting guard — the player responsible for attempting long-range shots
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- shooting range — place for practising with guns
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
- sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- signature loan — a loan requiring no collateral.
- signature tune — theme song (def 2).
- silent partner — a partner taking no active part in the conduct of a business.
- silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
- silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.