16-letter words containing nis
- misogynistically — In a misogynistic manner.
- necessitarianism — the doctrine that all events, including acts of the will, are determined by antecedent causes; determinism.
- neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
- neoimpressionism — the theory and practice of a group of post-impressionists of about the middle 1880s, characterized chiefly by a systematic juxtaposition of dots or points of pure color according to a concept of the optical mixture of hues.
- nondeterministic — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
- obstructionistic — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
- phalansterianism — a system by which society would be reorganized into units comprising their own social and industrial elements; Fourierism.
- pro-abolitionist — (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
- schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
- secular humanism — any set of beliefs that promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.
- self-determinism — a theory that every present state or condition of the self is a result of previous states or conditions of the self.
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- soft furnishings — home fabrics
- spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
- spanish chestnut — Castanea sativa
- spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
- spanish moroccan — of or relating to the former Spanish colony of Spanish Morocco (now part of Morocco) or its inhabitants
- spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
- spanish windlass — a stick used as a device for twisting and tightening a rope or cable
- spanish-american — noting or pertaining to the parts of America where Spanish is the prevailing language.
- subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
- swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- unissued capital — authorized capital that has not yet been issued as shares
- venus and adonis — a narrative poem (1593) by Shakespeare.