15-letter words containing t, i, e, m, a, n
- semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product
- semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
- semitransparent — imperfectly or almost transparent.
- senile dementia — a syndrome of progressive, irreversible impairment of cognitive function, caused by organic factors and having its onset late in life.
- sentinel animal — an animal that is placed in a given environment and then monitored to find out if an infectious disease or other harmful agent is present in that environment
- september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shemini atseres — the festival which follows upon Sukkoth on Tishri 22 (and 23 outside Israel), and includes Simchat Torah
- ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
- shot in the arm — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- siege mentality — a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated.
- silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
- simple equation — linear equation
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
- simplicidentate — belonging or pertaining to the Simplicidentata, formerly regarded as a suborder or division of rodents having only one pair of upper incisor teeth.
- sistine madonna — a Madonna painted by Raphael for the Church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, Italy.
- sixth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.
- small intestine — intestine (def 2).
- smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
- social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
- sodium arsenite — a white or grayish-white, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaAsO 2 , used chiefly in arsenical soaps for hides, as an insecticide, and as a weed-killer.
- sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
- somerset island — an island in the Arctic Ocean in Nunavut, Canada, NW of Baffin Island. 9594 sq. mi. (24,848 sq. km).
- spermatogenesis — the origin and development of spermatozoa.
- spring mattress — a mattress containing an arrangement of spiral springs
- start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
- steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
- steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
- storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
- summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
- supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
- supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- talking machine — Older Use. a phonograph.
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
- teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
- telamonian ajax — Ajax (def 1).
- telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.