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23-letter words containing c, e, r, t

  • sheltered accommodation — housing specially designed to provide a safe environment for the elderly, handicapped, or disabled, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • sierra madre occidental — the system of mountains in the west of Mexico
  • silicone breast implant — silicone filled bags that are implanted into a woman in order to increase the size of her breasts
  • slip between the cracks — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • small-saver certificate — a savings certificate issued in a small denomination.
  • small-scale integration — SSI.
  • social democratic party — History/Historical. a political party in Germany advocating a form of social organization based on the economic and political ideology of Karl Marx.
  • social education centre — a daycentre, run by a local authority, for people with learning disabilities and sometimes also for people who have physical disabilities or are mentally ill
  • social security payment — a payment of social security made to an individual
  • socialist international — an international association of largely anti-Communist Social Democratic Parties, founded in Frankfurt in 1951
  • somaliland protectorate — official name of the former British Somaliland.
  • sovereignty association — (in Canada) a proposed arrangement by which Quebec would become independent but would maintain a formal association with Canada
  • staggered directorships — a defence against unwelcome takeover bids in which a company resolves that its directors should serve staggered terms of office and that no director can be removed from office without just cause, thus preventing a bidder from controlling the board for some years
  • state coordinate system — a system of right-angled planar coordinates established by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for each state in the United States.
  • state-certified midwife — a midwife with a recognized qualification
  • state-trading countries — countries whose export and import trading is government controlled
  • stereoscopic microscope — a microscope that produces a three-dimensional image of an object by focusing on the object from slightly different positions in each of two lenses.
  • stereospecific catalyst — a catalyst for stereospecific chemical reactions
  • sterling software, inc. — (company)   A software company which was bought out by Computer Associates International, Inc.
  • stick to someone's ribs — to be nourishing and satisfying
  • strategic business unit — an autonomous division or section with its own mission within a larger organization
  • stream of consciousness — unpunctuated prose
  • stream-of-consciousness — of, relating to, or characterized by a manner of writing in which a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, distinctions between various levels of reality, or the like: a stream-of-consciousness novel; a stream-of-consciousness technique.
  • structural unemployment — unemployment caused by basic changes in the overall economy, as in demographics, technology, or industrial organization.
  • sub specie aeternitatis — from the standpoint of eternity; from a universal perspective
  • subscription television — pay television.
  • superposition principle — principle of superposition.
  • supplementary insurance — Supplementary insurance is insurance coverage that is purchased in addition to an insurance policy to provide additional benefits or coverage.
  • sustainable agriculture — any of a number of environmentally friendly farming methods that preserve an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources.
  • symbolic interactionism — a theory that human interaction and communication is facilitated by words, gestures, and other symbols that have acquired conventionalized meanings.
  • system control language — (language)   (SCL) The command language for the VME/B operating system on the ICL2900. SCL was block structured and supported strings, lists of strings ("superstrings"), integer, Boolean, and array types. You could trigger a block whenever a condition on a variable value occured. It supported macros and default arguments. Commands were treated like procedure calls.
  • take into consideration — take account of, allow for
  • tangible user interface — (interface)   An attempt to give physical form to digital information, making bits directly manipulable and perceptible by people. Tangible Interfaces will make bits accessible through augmented physical surfaces (e.g. walls, desktops, ceilings, windows), graspable objects (e.g. building blocks, models, instruments) and ambient media (e.g. light, sound, airflow, water-flow, kinetic sculpture) within physical environments.
  • terminal user interface — Textual User Interface
  • text processing utility — (language)   (TPU) A DEC language for creation of text-processing interfaces, used to implement DEC's Extensible VAX Editor (EVE).
  • thank one's lucky stars — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
  • the chamber of deputies — the lower legislative assembly in some parliaments
  • the data protection act — a United Kingdom act of parliament designed to ensure the proper handling of information stored about individuals on computers and entitling individuals to find out what information is stored about them
  • the library of congress — the official library of the United States in Washington, DC. It houses extensive collections in all subject areas and formats, important historical documents, and is also a depository for copyrighted materials.
  • the metropolitan police — the police organization that is responsible for Greater London, excluding the City of London
  • the numbers game/racket — If you refer to the numbers game, the numbers racket, or the numbers, you are referring to an illegal lottery or illegal betting.
  • the scottish parliament — the devolved national legislature of Scotland, located in Edinburgh
  • the teaching profession — the profession of a teacher
  • the thrill of the chase — If you talk about the thrill of the chase, you are referring to the excitement that people feel when they are trying hard to get something.
  • the yachting fraternity — the social circle of well-off people who sail yachts
  • throttle-body injection — a fuel-injection system in which an injector (throttle-body injector) delivers fuel to a central location within the intake manifold of the engine. Abbreviation: TBI.
  • to blow someone's cover — To blow someone's cover means to cause their true identity or the true nature of their work to be revealed.
  • to carry all before you — If a person or team carries all before them, they succeed very easily.
  • to change for the worse — If a situation changes for the worse, it becomes more unpleasant or more difficult.
  • to count your blessings — If you tell someone to count their blessings, you are saying that they should think about how lucky they are instead of complaining.
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