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16-letter words containing si

  • 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.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
  • silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • simonyi, charles — Charles Simonyi
  • simple extension — an extension field of a given field, obtained by forming all polynomials in a specified element with coefficients contained in the given field.
  • simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
  • 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.
  • singing telegram — a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by singing to the person celebrating
  • single occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as at a hotel, for one person in a room.
  • single precision — using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • sinus meridianii — an area on the equator of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
  • situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
  • 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.
  • size enlargement — Size enlargement is a process in which the particle size of a solid is increased.
  • social exclusion — Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
  • social inclusion — Social inclusion is the act of making all groups of people within a society feel valued and important.
  • solid dispersion — Solid dispersion is the process of dispersing a solid through a liquid in order to increase contact.
  • speech synthesis — computer-generated audio output that imitates human speech
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
  • state-subsidized — partly paid for by the state; subsidized by the state
  • strict inclusion — the relation between two sets that obtains when all the members of the first are members of the second
  • strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
  • subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • succession state — any of a number of usually new states that are established in or expand over the territory formerly ruled by one large state
  • supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • suspension point — one of a group of dots, usually three, used in written material to indicate the omission of a word or words
  • swine erysipelas — erysipelas (def 2).
  • swinging sixties — the 1960s as a decade when social and sexual freedom increased
  • systems analysis — the evaluation of an activity to identify its desired objectives and determine procedures for efficiently attaining them.
  • tamper-resistant — difficult to tamper with: a tamper-resistant cap on a medicine bottle.
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
  • the missing link — a hypothetical extinct animal or animal group, formerly thought to be intermediate between the anthropoid apes and man
  • the opposite sex — women in relation to men or men in relation to women
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the silver state — the nickname of the US state of Nevada, which comes from the large amount of silver discovered and mined there
  • the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
  • the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
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