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17-letter words containing a, n, t, r, o, s

  • stratford-on-avon — a town in SW Warwickshire, in central England, on the Avon River: birthplace and burial place of Shakespeare.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • stress relaxation — Stress relaxation is a gradual reduction in stress with time at constant strain.
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • sufficient reason — the principle that nothing happens by pure chance, but that an explanation must always be available
  • sun-2 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc., based on the Motorola 68000. Followed by the Sun-3 Workstation.
  • sun-3 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the 1980s, based on the Motorola 68020. Successor to the Sun-2 Workstation, followed by the Sun-4 Workstation. The Sun-3 had a custom MMU. A couple of mutant models used an entirely different architecture.
  • sun-4 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the late 1980s[?], based on SPARC processors. The Sun-4 followed the Sun-3 Workstation. Later SPARC-based workstations were called "SPARCstations".
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • super-nationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
  • superalimentation — nourishment; nutrition.
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • superregeneration — regeneration in which a signal is alternately amplified and quenched at a frequency slightly above the audible range to achieve high sensitivity with a single tube.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • supra-nationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • swainson's thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus ustulatus, having olive upper parts and wintering south to Argentina.
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • synchronistically — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take sth on trust — If you take something on trust after having heard or read it, you believe it completely without checking it.
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the past anterior — a French tense: the pluperfect
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • thermal diffusion — the separation of constituents, often isotopes, of a fluid under the influence of a temperature gradient.
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • thread escutcheon — a raised metal rim around a keyhole.
  • three-dimensional — having, or seeming to have, the dimension of depth as well as width and height.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
  • trade association — an association of people or companies in a particular business or trade, organized to promote their common interests.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • transfer function — The transfer function of a circuit is the ratio of the response to the input.
  • transferable vote — a vote that is transferred to a second candidate indicated by the voter if the first is eliminated from the ballot
  • transformationist — transformist.
  • transignification — (in the Eucharist) a change in the significance of the bread and wine to symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
  • transition region — a thin and very irregular layer of the sun's atmosphere that separates the hot corona from the much cooler chromosphere.
  • transitory action — an action that can be brought in any country regardless of where it originated
  • transmission line — a system of conductors, as coaxial cable, a wave guide, or a pair of parallel wires, used to transmit signals.
  • transonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • tridimensionality — having three dimensions.
  • trobriand islands — a group of coral islands in the Solomon Sea, north of the E part of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Area: about 440 sq km (170 sq miles)
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