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16-letter words containing re

  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • shared resources — the sharing of peripherals among several terminals
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • shemini atzereth — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishri, being the 8th day of Sukkoth: marked by a memorial service for the dead and prayers for rain in Israel.
  • shoot the breeze — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
  • showbiz reporter — a journalist who writes about the entertainment industry
  • shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
  • sidestream smoke — secondhand smoke.
  • silent treatment — an act or instance of maintaining silence or aloofness toward another person, especially as a means of indicating disapproval or rejection.
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • singapore strait — a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • social secretary — a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.
  • social structure — structure (def 9).
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • special interest — special-interest group (def 1).
  • specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • spreading center — a linear zone in the sea floor along which magma rises and from which adjacent crustal plates are moving apart.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
  • stereomicroscope — stereoscopic microscope.
  • stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
  • stevedore's knot — a knot that forms a lump in a line to prevent it from passing through a hole or grommet.
  • stevenson screen — a shelter for meteorological instruments, consisting of a raised white louvred box
  • storm and stress — Sturm und Drang.
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
  • streaked gurnard — a type of fish, Chelidonichthys lastoviza or Trigloporus lastoviza
  • street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
  • street directory — a directory containing an alphabetical list of streets along with other information such as the names and addresses of householders and tradespeople
  • street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
  • street performer — busker or entertainer in a public place
  • streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
  • stretch receptor — muscle spindle.
  • stretcher bearer — a person who helps to carry a stretcher, esp in wartime
  • stretcher-bearer — a person who helps carry a stretcher, as in removing wounded from a battlefield.
  • striped squirrel — any squirrel with stripes on its back, as a chipmunk.
  • sub-postmistress — (in Britain) a woman who runs a sub-post office
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
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