16-letter words containing sa
- disagreeableness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
- disappearing act — magic trick
- dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
- disposable goods — consumer goods that are used up a short time after purchase, including perishables, newspapers, clothes, etc
- dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
- do the necessary — to do something that is necessary in a particular situation
- eicosapentaenoic — Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives.
- expert appraisal — a valuation of property or goods by an expert
- factor of safety — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- feira de santana — a city in BahÍa state, E Brazil.
- fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
- for pete's sake! — an expression of frustration, exasperation or annoyance
- fort sam houston — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in San Antonio, Tex.
- francis of sales — Saint, 1567–1622, French ecclesiastic and writer on theology: bishop of Geneva 1602–22.
- garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
- gay-lussac's law — the principle that, for relatively low pressures, the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the absolute temperature of the gas.
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- greater sand eel — a large species of sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus
- gregory of nyssa — Saint, a.d. c330–395? Christian bishop and theologian in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Basil).
- gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- high renaissance — a style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, schematized, often centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting. Compare Early Renaissance, Venetian (def 2).
- himalayan balsam — a tall flowering plant, Impatiens glandulifera, brought from Asia to Europe as a garden plant but now growing wild in Europe, especially on river banks. It is considered invasive and environmentally damaging.
- hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
- husayn ali mirza — 1817–92, Persian religious leader: founder of Bahāʾī.
- i'm sorry to say — You use the expression I'm sorry to say to express regret together with disappointment or disapproval.
- immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- indecent assault — a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
- indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- it's fair to say — You use fair in expressions such as It would be fair to say in order to introduce a statement which you believe to be true and reasonable.
- jerusalem cherry — an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and bearing cherrylike scarlet or yellow fruits, cultivated as an ornamental.
- job satisfaction — Job satisfaction is the pleasure that you get from doing your job.
- kaposi's sarcoma — a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
- kawasaki disease — an acute illness of unknown cause, occurring primarily in children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph glands, rash, redness in mouth and throat, and joint pain.
- killer satellite — an orbiting satellite that can be maneuvered to approach a target satellite and destroy it by exploding
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
- lake saint clair — a lake between SE Michigan and Ontario: linked with Lake Huron by the St Clair River and with Lake Erie by the Detroit River. Area: 1191 sq km (460 sq miles)
- lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
- latter-day saint — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- lesser sanhedrin — Sanhedrin (def 2).
- lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- menippean satire — a form of satire that is indirect and nonrealistic in approach and that consists typically of a loosely organized narrative incorporating a series of dialogues between representatives of various points of view
- mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
- message digest 5 — (messaging) The message digest function defined in RFC 1321.
- microcosmic salt — sodium ammonium phosphate.
- misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
- misapprehensions — Plural form of misapprehension.