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14-letter words starting with sa

  • saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • salade niçoise — a cold dish consisting of hard-boiled eggs, anchovy fillets, olives, tomatoes, tuna fish, etc
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • sale or return — an arrangement by which a retailer pays only for goods sold, returning those that are unsold to the wholesaler or manufacturer
  • sales analysis — the analysis by a company of whether it has met its sales goals within a certain time period
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
  • sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
  • salicylic acid — a white, crystalline, very slightly water-soluble powder, C 7 H 6 O 3 , prepared from salicin or phenol: used as a food preservative, in the manufacture of aspirin, and in medicine chiefly in the form of a salicylate as a remedy for rheumatic and gouty conditions.
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • salt lake city — a state in the W United States. 84,916 sq. mi. (219,930 sq. km). Capital: Salt Lake City. Abbreviation: UT (for use with zip code), Ut.
  • salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • san franciscan — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
  • san jose scale — a scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus, that is highly destructive to fruit trees and shrubs throughout the U.S.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • sanctus turret — a bell cote holding a Sanctus bell.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
  • sandalwood oil — extract of fragrant Asian wood
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • sanguification — hematopoiesis.
  • sanibel island — an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the SW coast of Florida. 16 sq. mi. (41.5 sq. km).
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • sanitation man — a man who collects and disposes of refuse for the sanitation department of local government
  • sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
  • sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
  • santa catalina — an island off the SW coast of California, opposite Long Beach: resort. 132 sq. mi. (342 sq. km).
  • santa catarina — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
  • santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
  • saone-et-loire — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
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