14-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, s
- specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
- specrate_int92 — (benchmark) The integer SPECrate derived from the results of a set of integer benchmarks (the geometric mean of six SPEC rates from CINT92) run multiple times simultaneously, and can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for integer code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_int92 obsoletes SPECintThruput89. See also SPECbaserate.
- spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
- spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- st. catharines — a city in SE Ontario, in SE Canada.
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- standard pitch — concert pitch
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- starting price — gambling odds
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- state medicine — socialized medicine.
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
- steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
- stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- straight chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straight-chain — an open chain of atoms, usually carbon, with no side chains attached to it.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
- subassociation — an association that forms part of a larger association
- subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
- synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
- systematicness — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- tacking stitch — a long, loose, temporary stitch used in dressmaking, etc
- talismanically — in a talismanic manner
- tax concession — tax reduction
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- technicalities — technical methods and vocabulary
- telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
- term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
- the resistance — an illegal organization fighting for national liberty in a country under enemy occupation, esp in France during World War II
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.