15-Letter Words Starting with S

Sabermetrician

Sacramentalism

Sacramentalist

Sacrosanctity

Saprogenicity

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

Seaworthiness

Secondariness

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

Secularization

Securitization

Segregationist

Jackson Pollock's "Bird," for example

Highly stylized sculpting style

""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

SEPARABLENESS separable

MacArthur and Churchill

Spain guarantees recreation for elderly people

By chance

Seroconversion

Utility

Servomechanism

SESQUICARBONATE

Any nice requests played for this anniversary (wordplay)

SILVERSMITHING silversmith

Silvicultural

Silviculturist

Sinterability

Abattoirs

Sledgehammer

Snippersnapper

Sociocultural

Adjective (-ical)

Trait of kind people

Compassionate trait

Sheds tears often, contrived to show compassion

Solderability

Solitudinarian

SORROWFULNESS sorrowful

Spectrography

Spectroscopist

Plural or third person singular

The development of the spermatozoids.

Spinthariscope

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

Splendiferous

Sporangiophore

Spreadability

Sprightliness

Stadtholderate

The office or position of a stadtholder.

Norm's establishment

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.

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

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

CONTRAOCTAVE

Submetacentric

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

Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.

Subterraneous

URBANIZATION

Sulfinpyrazone

SULFUROUSNESS sulfurous

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

Superstitious

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

Parts of ships.

Supersubtlety

Supersymmetry

Abstract noun (-ity)

Suppressive

How gumshoes work

In a stealthy way.

Tourist with pleurisy treated on the sly

Survivability

Symmetrical

Symmetrization

Synchronicity

""SYNCHRONISE SYNCHRO a type of remote-control device, also SELSYN""

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

Simultaneous timing

SYNERGISTIC Of or pertaining to synergism.