16-letter words containing se
- semi-mountainous — abounding in mountains: a mountainous wilderness.
- 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.
- semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
- semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
- semiquantitative — partially quantitative.
- semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
- senate committee — a committee formed from the upper chamber of the legislature in, for example, the US, Canada, Australia, etc
- send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
- sendero luminoso — Spanish. a Maoist guerrilla movement active in Peru since 1980.
- seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
- sensationalistic — subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
- sense perception — perception by the senses rather than by the intellect.
- sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
- sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
- separate opinion — an opinion written by a judge separately from other judges, which can either agree or disagree with the opinion written by the majority of judges
- sergeant at arms — an executive officer of a legislative or other body, whose duty it is to enforce its commands, preserve order, etc.
- series resonance — the resonance that results when circuit elements are connected with their inductance and capacitance in series, so that the impedance of the combination falls to a minimum at the resonant frequency
- serpentine front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a horizontal compound curve with a convex section between two concave ones.
- serra da estrela — a mountain range in N central Portugal. Highest peak, Malhão da Estrela, 6532 feet (1991 meters).
- 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
- set light to sth — If you set light to something, you make it start burning.
- set on one's ear — the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- settlement agent — A settlement agent is a person who arranges the transfer of securities or real property in a sale.
- settlement house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- settlement price — The settlement price is the average price of a financial instrument at the end of a trading day.
- settlement-house — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- seven weeks' war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
- seven years' war — the war (1756–63) in which England and Prussia defeated France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.
- severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
- severnaya zemlya — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
- sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
- seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
- sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
- sexual deviation — a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism.
- sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
- sexual selection — a special type of natural selection in which the sexes acquire distinct forms either because the members of one sex choose mates with particular features or because in the competition for mates among the members of one sex only those with certain traits succeed.
- shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
- shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- share repurchase — A share repurchase is a situation in which a company buys back its own shares.