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16-letter words containing ic

  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • richard stallman — (person)   Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • risus sardonicus — fixed contraction of the facial muscles resulting in a peculiar distorted grin, caused esp by tetanus
  • rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
  • romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
  • sabbatical leave — a year or shorter period of absence for study, rest, or travel, given at intervals (orig. every seven years) as to some college teachers and now to people in other fields, at full or partial salary
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • sacrificial lamb — If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group.
  • sado-masochistic — Something that is sado-masochistic is connected with the practice of sado-masochism.
  • same-day service — (humour, operating system)   An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
  • sandwich islands — the Hawaiian Islands
  • sauce americaine — a sauce prepared with tomatoes, garlic, wine, shallots, and herbs. See also à l’américaine.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
  • self-sacrificial — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
  • self-sacrificing — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
  • self-sufficiency — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
  • sensationalistic — subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
  • service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
  • service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.
  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • service provider — company: provides internet
  • sesquicentennial — pertaining to or marking the completion of a period of 150 years.
  • session musician — a studio musician, esp one who works freelance
  • settlement price — The settlement price is the average price of a financial instrument at the end of a trading day.
  • shirring elastic — elastic used for shirring
  • sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
  • sick as a parrot — very disappointed
  • sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.
  • situation ethics — a view of ethics that deprecates general moral principles while emphasizing the source of moral judgments in the distinctive characters of specific situations.
  • slang dictionary — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
  • social economics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
  • sociolinguistics — the study of language as it functions in society; the study of the interaction between linguistic and social variables.
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
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