20-letter words containing c, h, i, p, e, n
- sex change operation — a surgical operation designed to change a person's physical sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex
- south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
- spanish west african — of or relating to the former Spanish overseas territory of Spanish West Africa (now the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara) or its inhabitants
- spanish-american war — the war between the U.S. and Spain in 1898.
- spatial technologies — (company) Distributors of the ACIS solid modelling engine.
- special relationship — the exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural and historical relations between the United States and the United Kingdom
- spherical aberration — variation in focal length of a lens or mirror from center to edge, due to its spherical shape.
- spherical coordinate — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
- splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
- split the difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- step into the breach — If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.
- synthetic philosophy — the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, intended as a synthesis of all the sciences.
- telephone subscriber — a person who subscribes to a telephone service
- the price of someone — what someone deserves, esp a fitting punishment
- the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
- therapeutic abortion — abortion performed when a woman's pregnancy endangers her health.
- transposition cipher — a cipher that rearranges the letters of the plain text in a different sequence.
- triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading.
- under the microscope — If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
- visually handicapped — unable to carry out normal activities because of defects of vision, including blindness
- wipe the slate clean — begin afresh