15-Letter Words Containing S

SECLUSIVENESS seclusive

Secondariness

SECRETIVENESS The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

Secularization

Securitization

Sedimentology

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

SEDITIOUSNESS seditious

SEDUCTIVENESS seductive

Segregationist

SELECTIVENESS selective

Jackson Pollock's "Bird," for example

Highly stylized sculpting style

Fifty-year celebrations

""COLONIALISM The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.""

""Half crystalline; said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.""

""CYLINDRICAL Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.""

DOCUMENTARY Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

""Inflected form of LOGARITHMIC Inflected form of LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

""PORNOGRAPHY Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

Semiretirement

Floating oil-rig with more than half its structure under water

Like creatures that live mostly but not entirely on land

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Paperback moved with additional books, which is not entirely clear

It's not quite clear how a Jew almost managed to save Christian writings

SENSATIONALISE sensational

SENSATIONALISE sensational

Sensationalism

... people who like cheap thrills

Source of bad taste

Typical tabloid writers

SENSATIONALIZE

Juices up

Hypes

SENSITIVENESS sensitive

Sensualization

Pompous formality

Excessive moralizing

SENTIMENTALISE sentimental

SENTIMENTALISE sentimental

Sentimentalism

Readers of Louisa May Alcott

The soap-opera set.

Hearts-and-flowers types

""SENTIMENTALIZE To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. as, to sentimentalize a subject.""

Sentimentalize

SEPARABLENESS separable

The cardinal number equal to 10 54 .

MacArthur and Churchill

Spain guarantees recreation for elderly people

By chance

Seroconversion

Utility

Servomechanism

SESQUICARBONATE

Any nice requests played for this anniversary (wordplay)

SHAMELESSNESS shameless

SHAPELESSNESS shapeless

SHIFTLESSNESS shiftless

In a hilarious manner

SIGHTLESSNESS sightless

Sigmoidoscopy

Silicification

SILVERSMITHING silversmith

Silvicultural

Silviculturist

Simplification

Sinterability

Abattoirs

Sledgehammer

SLEEPLESSNESS sleepless

Snippersnapper

SOCIALISTIC

Of a study of animal and human behavior

Certain students of human behavior

Sociocultural

Adjective (-ical)

SOCIOLINGUIST

Trait of kind people

Compassionate trait

Sheds tears often, contrived to show compassion

Solderability

Solidification

SOLIPSISTIC

Solitudinarian

Solubilization

Somnambulation

Sophisticated

Sophistication

SORROWFULNESS sorrowful

Specialisation

Specialization

Spectrography

Spectroscopist

Plural or third person singular

The development of the spermatozoids.

SPINELESSNESS spineless

Spinthariscope

SPIRITUALNESS The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritualminded; spirituality.

Splendiferous

SPLENECTOMIZE

Naturalness; lack of guile.

State of being natural and unconstrained.

Sporangiophore

Spreadability

Sprightliness

SQUEAMISHNESS squeamish

Squeezability

Stadtholderate

The office or position of a stadtholder.

Norm's establishment

Lack of sociability

Aloof behavior

Hand stiffens so terribly on son showing cold quality

STATELESSNESS stateless

STEADFASTNESS The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.

Steeplechasing

Cor, the mysteries about one branch of a particular science!

Handedness, in chemistry

Stereological

STEREOTAXIC

Without any surprises, perhaps

Plural or third person singular

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stigmatization

Wall Street firms

Biographical information about Wall Street workers (wordplay)

Stoichiometry

Upright basketball player (wordplay)

Honest direction (wordplay)

Undemanding, unlike a hooker!

Tailored garments.

Straitjacket

Puritanical nature

Stratification

Stratovolcano

STRENUOUSNESS strenuous

Germ in toilet, pal scrubs away

Streptothricin

Strikebreaking

""STRONGYLOID Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.""

""STRONGYLOID Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.""

STRUCTURALIZE

Stultification

STYLELESSNESS styleless

Inflected form of CATEGORIZING Inflected form of CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

CONTRAOCTAVE

Subdevelopment

Subinfeudation

Submetacentric

OPTIMIZATION

Subordinate

""ORGANIZATION The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.""

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Subproletariat

Subreptitious

Inflected form of SPECIALIZING Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

""The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column. as, the substantialness of a wall or column.""

Proof-supplying demonstrations

The quality or state of being substantive.

""SUBSTANTIVIZE To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective. as, to substantivize an adjective.""

Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.

Subterraneous

URBANIZATION

""VOCALIZATION The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.""

""A crystalline compound, C 14 H 30 N 2 O 4 , formed by esterification of succinic acid with choline and used medically to produce brief but complete muscular relaxation.""

Sulfinpyrazone

SULFUROUSNESS sulfurous

SUMPTUOUSNESS sumptuous

SUPERABLENESS superable

Superabsorbent

Superabundance

Superabundant

Superactivity

Superannuation

English word

Supercalender

Having zero electrical resistance

Superconduct

Atom smasher parts

They're used in cutting-edge electronics

Experimental electrical materials

Supercontinent

English word

English word

Superelevation

Supererogation

Superfluidity

Superfluous

One administration on top of another

""Of, relating to, or being a form of radio reception in which the frequency of an incoming radio signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals.""

Superhumanity

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

Adjective (-al)

""SUPERINDUCTION The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.""

SUPERINFECTION superinfect

Management by overseeing

Overseeing

Management

The act of managing by overseeing

Building biggies

Landlords' myrmidons.

Superlative

Supermajority

Belief in magic

Belief in ghosts

Believer in ESP

Seance participant, presumably

Believer in miracles.

Nonsinging opera performers.

Theatrical walk-ons

Extras

Supernutrition

Superovulation

Infestation of parasites by other parasites.

Jingo's excessive ardor

English word

Superphosphate

SUPERPLASTIC

A strange pursuit involved getting soaked more than is normal (wordplay)

""The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.""

SUPERSCRIPTION The act of superscribing.

SUPERSPECIAL

Superspectacle

SUPERSTIMULATE

Superstimulate