15-Letter Words Starting with S

Sacramentalism

Sacramentalist

SALACIOUSNESS salacious

Sanctimonious

SAPROPHYTIC Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

Like an instructor and the room his class trashed

Scintillometer

Sclerotization

Sculpturesque

SECLUSIVENESS seclusive

Secularization

Sedimentology

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

SELECTIVENESS selective

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.""

""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""

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.

SENSATIONALISE sensational

SENSATIONALISE sensational

Sensationalism

... people who like cheap thrills

Source of bad taste

Typical tabloid writers

SENSATIONALIZE

Juices up

Hypes

Sensualization

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 .

By chance

Utility

SHAMELESSNESS shameless

SHAPELESSNESS shapeless

SHIFTLESSNESS shiftless

In a hilarious manner

SIGHTLESSNESS sightless

Silicification

SILVERSMITHING silversmith

Silvicultural

Silviculturist

Simplification

Sinterability

Abattoirs

Sledgehammer

SLEEPLESSNESS sleepless

SOCIALISTIC

Of a study of animal and human behavior

Certain students of human behavior

Sociocultural

Adjective (-ical)

SOCIOLINGUIST

Solderability

Solidification

SOLIPSISTIC

Solitudinarian

Solubilization

Somnambulation

Sophisticated

SORROWFULNESS sorrowful

Specialisation

Specialization

SPINELESSNESS spineless

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

Splendiferous

SPLENECTOMIZE

Spreadability

Sprightliness

Squeezability

Stadtholderate

The office or position of a stadtholder.

STATELESSNESS stateless

Steeplechasing

Stereological

STEREOTAXIC

Without any surprises, perhaps

Puritanical nature

Stratovolcano

Germ in toilet, pal scrubs away

""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

Subdevelopment

""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.""

Subterraneous

""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

SUPERABLENESS superable

Superabundant

Supercalender

Superelevation

Superfluidity

Superfluous

Adjective (-al)

Superlative

Belief in magic

Belief in ghosts

Believer in ESP

Seance participant, presumably

Believer in miracles.

Superovulation

SUPERPLASTIC

SUPERSPECIAL

Superspectacle

SUPERSTIMULATE

Superstimulate

Superstitious

SUPERSTRUCTURE Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis

Supersubtlety

What a poor diet may need

Abstract noun (-ity)

How gumshoes work

In a stealthy way.

Tourist with pleurisy treated on the sly

Survivability

Susceptible

Suspenseful

SWELLHEADED swellhead

Sycophantical

Word division

In a syllogistic manner.

Symmetrical

Out of pity

All my petty cash I laid out thoughtfully

Initially speak about my poor friend with feeling

Symptomatical

Adjective (-ic)

By synecdoche.

SYNERGISTIC Of or pertaining to synergism.