16-letter words containing a, n, m, e, s, t
- storage terminal — A storage terminal is a building or area with large tanks for storing oil, gas, and other petrochemical products.
- storm and stress — Sturm und Drang.
- studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
- summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
- summation method — a method for associating a sum with a divergent series.
- summational tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, higher in pitch than either
- summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
- sun-dried tomato — tomato dried in the sun
- sunray treatment — treatment using a sunray lamp
- supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
- sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
- swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
- syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- systems analysis — the evaluation of an activity to identify its desired objectives and determine procedures for efficiently attaining them.
- taimyr peninsula — a peninsula in the N Russian Federation in Asia, between the Kara and Laptev seas.
- take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- tamper-resistant — difficult to tamper with: a tamper-resistant cap on a medicine bottle.
- tandem computers — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
- tea and sympathy — a caring attitude, esp to someone in trouble
- ten commandments — Bible: instructions given to Moses
- tequendama falls — a waterfall in central Colombia, on the Bogota River, SW of Bogota. 515 feet (157 meters) high.
- terminal illness — A terminal illness cannot be cured, and causes death.
- terminus ad quem — the end to which; aim; goal; final or latest limiting point.
- terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
- the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the home nations — the countries that make up the United Kingdom: England, N. Ireland, Scotland & Wales
- thermal analysis — any analysis of materials in which properties relating to heat, such as freezing and boiling temperatures, the heat of fusion, the heat of vaporization, etc., are measured.
- thermal constant — a quantity that is considered invariable throughout a series of calculations relating to the heat of bodies
- thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- thermoanesthesia — thermanesthesia.
- thesis statement — a short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence.
- thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- tiananmen square — a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted especially as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government.
- tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
- tienanmen square — Tiananmen Square.
- tiger salamander — a salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, common in North America, having a dark body marked with yellowish spots or bars.
- to compare notes — If you compare notes with someone on a particular subject, you talk to them and find out whether their opinion, information, or experience is the same as yours.
- to mean business — If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing.
- to pass judgment — If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
- to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
- transmethylation — the transfer of a methyl group from one compound to another.
- transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
- trim one's sails — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.