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17-letter words containing sa

  • frostbite sailing — the sport of sailing in temperate latitudes during the winter despite cold weather.
  • general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
  • germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
  • give satisfaction — to satisfy
  • glycosaminoglycan — any of a class of polysaccharides derived from hexosamine that form mucins when complexed with proteins: formerly called mucopolysaccharide.
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • greensand process — a process for casting iron with sand not previously heated.
  • hexacosanoic acid — cerotic acid.
  • hollandaise sauce — a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.
  • horseradish sauce — a piquant sauce made from horseradish root, vinegar, etc, and traditionally eaten in Britain with roast beef
  • hyperpolarisation — Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
  • hypoglossal nerve — either one of the twelfth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the tongue.
  • i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
  • i wouldn't say no — You use 'I wouldn't say no' to indicate that you would like something, especially something that has just been offered to you.
  • ichthyosarcotoxin — a term applied to any poison found in the flesh of poisonous fishes.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • in the same canoe — of the same tribe
  • indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
  • individualisation — Alternative spelling of individualization.
  • industrialisation — Alternative spelling of industrialization.
  • infralapsarianism — the doctrine, held by Augustinians and by many Calvinists, that God planned the Creation, permitted the Fall, elected a chosen number, planned their redemption, and suffered the remainder to be eternally punished (opposed to supralapsarianism).
  • installment sales — Installment sales are sales where fixed payments will be made regularly over a particular period of time.
  • instant messaging — Instant messaging is a form of written communication that allows you to send messages from one computer to another. The message appears immediately on the screen of the computer you send it to, provided the computer is using the service. The abbreviation IM is also used.
  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • john of salisbury — c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.
  • kansas city steak — strip steak.
  • kansas city style — a style of jazz developed in Kansas City, Mo., in the early 1930s, marked by a strong blues influence, the use of riffs as a characteristic formal device, and a less pronounced beat than that of the New Orleans or Chicago style of jazz.
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • kennesaw mountain — a mountain in N Georgia, near Atlanta: battle 1864. 1809 feet (551 meters).
  • landlocked salmon — a variety of the Atlantic Ocean salmon, Salmo salar, confined to the freshwater lakes of New England and adjacent areas of Canada.
  • latter-day saints — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • lipopolysaccaride — a molecule, consisting of lipid and polysaccharide components, that is the main constituent of the cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • marquesas islands — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
  • massage therapist — sb who gives body rubs
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
  • message switching — store and forward
  • methyl salicylate — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 3 , produced synthetically or by maceration and subsequent distillation from birch or gaultheria: used chiefly in perfumery and flavoring, and in medicine as a counterirritant in external preparations.
  • midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
  • misadministration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
  • misappropriations — Plural form of misappropriation.
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • mont-saint-michel — a rocky islet near the coast of NW France, in an inlet of the Gulf of St. Malo: famous abbey and fortress.
  • nikolaus von cusa — Nicholas (def 1).
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
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