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17-letter words containing em

  • republic of yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
  • retirement relief — (formerly, in Britain) relief from capital-gains tax given to people at or over 50 when disposing of business assets
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
  • romantic movement — the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.
  • run a temperature — If you are running a temperature or if you have a temperature, your temperature is higher than it usually is.
  • schematic capture — The process of entering the logical design of an electronic circuit into a CAE system by creating a schematic representation of components and interconnections.
  • scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
  • screaming meemies — extreme nervous tension
  • screaming-meemies — extreme nervousness; hysteria (usually preceded by the).
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • self-estrangement — to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of: Their quarrel estranged the two friends.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • semi-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • semi-monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semi-professional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • semi-quantitative — partially quantitative.
  • semi-skimmed milk — half-fat dairy product
  • semidetached mode — (programming)   A term used by COCOMO to describe a project development somewhere between organic and embedded. The team members have a mixture of experienced and inexperienced personnel. The software to be developed has some characteristics of both organic and embedded modes. Semidetached software can be as large as 300K DSIs.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • seminal principle — a potential, latent within an imperfect object, for attaining full development.
  • semisophisticated — somewhat sophisticated.
  • senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
  • september weather — weather characteristic of the month of September, esp in being unpredictable as summer is ending and autumn is beginning
  • septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
  • servient tenement — land subject to an easement or servitude.
  • settlement houses — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • settlement option — any of the options, other than immediate payment in a lump sum, by which the policyholder or beneficiary may choose to have the benefits of a policy paid.
  • settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
  • short-term memory — information retained in the brain and retrievable from it over a brief span of time (contrasted with long-term memory).
  • single supplement — A single supplement is an additional sum of money that a hotel charges for one person to stay in a room meant for two people.
  • sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
  • social democratic — A social democratic party is a political party whose principles are based on social democracy.
  • social settlement — settlement (def 14).
  • spot announcement — a brief radio or television announcement, usually an advertisement, made by an individual station during or after a network program.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • star-of-jerusalem — meadow salsify.
  • stress management — coping with psychological pressure
  • sunday supplement — a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • supply and demand — economy: basic market theory
  • supply management — business purchasing
  • supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
  • supreme sacrifice — the sacrifice of one's own life: Many made the supreme sacrifice during the war.
  • symbolic assembly — (language)   An early system on the IBM 705.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
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