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18-letter words containing a, t, o, n, i

  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • special collection — a collection of materials segregated from a general library collection according to form, subject, age, condition, rarity, source, or value.
  • sperry corporation — (company)   The company which merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation. Divisions included Sperry Univac, Sperry Flight Systems, and others. Some of these were sold off after the merger.
  • spin stabilization — a technique by which a bullet, rocket, etc, is made to spin around its longitudinal axis to assist it in maintaining a steady flight path
  • spirits of ammonia — a 10% solution of ammonia in alcohol
  • stand at attention — military: stand straight
  • standard deviation — a measure of dispersion in a frequency distribution, equal to the square root of the mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean of the distribution.
  • standard of living — a grade or level of subsistence and comfort in everyday life enjoyed by a community, class, or individual: The well-educated generally have a high standard of living.
  • standing committee — a permanent committee, as of a legislature, society, etc., intended to consider all matters pertaining to a designated subject.
  • standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
  • state of the union — A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.
  • statement of claim — law: first pleading
  • station management — (networking)   (SMT) Station Management One of the 4 key FDDI component layers. SMT is an overlay function that handles the management of the FDDI ring. It handles neighbor identification, fault detection and reconfiguration, insertion and de-insertion from the ring, and traffic statistics monitoring.
  • station-to-station — (of a long-distance telephone call) chargeable upon speaking with anyone at the number called: a station-to-station call to his home in Dallas.
  • stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
  • steller's sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • take cognizance of — note, acknowledge
  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • talent competition — a contest in which people compete by showcasing their talents, for example in singing, dancing, acrobatics, etc
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
  • tele-communication — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • television station — station (def 8).
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • tender loving care — considerate and kindly care, as of someone who is ill, upset, etc
  • territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
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