15-letter words containing ce
- service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
- sesquicentenary — a hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
- shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
- show one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- shut one's face — to be silent
- shuttle service — transport going back and forth
- simple sentence — a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday.
- smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
- social distance — the extent to which individuals or groups are removed from or excluded from participating in one another's lives.
- social services — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- sociocentricity — socially oriented.
- sonnet sequence — a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.
- source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
- source language — the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language (def 1).
- source material — original, authoritative, or basic materials utilized in research, as diaries or manuscripts.
- space character — a keyed space in text or data
- space scientist — an expert or specialist in any of the various science fields which relate to space flight or any phenomena occurring in space or on other planets. This would include for example such fields as Astronautics, Astrophysics, or Galactic Science
- space telescope — a satellite put in orbit around the earth and equipped with an extremely accurate reflecting telescope, cameras, etc.: it is designed to relay astronomical data to the earth
- special licence — a licence permitting a marriage to take place by dispensing with the usual legal conditions
- spinous process — a spinelike process of a bone, especially the dorsal projection from the center of the arch of a vertebra.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
- station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
- storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- studio audience — spectators on a TV set
- styloid process — a long, spinelike process of a bone, especially the projection from the base of the temporal bone.
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- subintelligence — below average intelligence
- subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- substance abuse — long-term, pathological use of alcohol or drugs, characterized by daily intoxication, inability to reduce consumption, and impairment in social or occupational functioning; broadly, alcohol or drug addiction.
- succedent house — any of the four houses that fall between the angular and cadent houses: the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh houses, which correspond, respectively, to possessions and values, love and creation, shared possessions and resources, and friends and social concerns.
- succes d'estime — success won by reason of merit and critical respect rather than by popularity.
- successlessness — lack of success; the quality or condition of being unsuccessful
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
- sunrise service — (sometimes initial capital letters) an outdoor religious service held at dawn on Easter morning.
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- superexcellence — extreme or supreme excellence; the quality of being superexcellent
- superintendence — a district or place under a superintendent.
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- target audience — the target audience of a programme is the group of people that the programme-makers are trying to persuade to watch or listen to it