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16-letter words containing c, n, s, t, i

  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • state's evidence — evidence given by an accomplice in a crime who becomes a voluntary witness against the other defendants: The defendants' case was lost when one of them turned state's evidence.
  • steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
  • stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • sticking plaster — an adhesive cloth or other material for covering and closing superficial wounds, holding bandages in place, etc.
  • stilton (cheese) — a rich, crumbly cheese with veins of blue-green mold
  • stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
  • stock allocation — Stock allocation is the decisions made about how quantities held at a central point will be distributed amongst several outlets in a retail chain.
  • stock car racing — the sport of racing in stock cars
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • strait-lacedness — the state or quality of being strait-laced
  • strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
  • street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
  • strict inclusion — the relation between two sets that obtains when all the members of the first are members of the second
  • strike a balance — compromise
  • string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
  • student teaching — the act of teaching in a school for a limited period under supervision as part of a course to qualify as a teacher
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • succession state — any of a number of usually new states that are established in or expand over the territory formerly ruled by one large state
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • super-injunction — an instruction or order issued by a court imposing restrictions on reporting, including any reference to the restriction itself
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • supporting actor — performer: not lead
  • surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
  • surface-printing — planography.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • syncategorematic — Traditional Logic. of or relating to a word that is part of a categorical proposition but is not a term, as all, some, is.
  • synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • synthetic speech — computer-generated audio output that resembles human speech, produced by an electronic synthesizer operated by means of a keyboard.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • technical school — college of further and vocational education
  • tension headache — a headache caused by muscle tension resulting from stress or overwork
  • the constitution — the document containing the fundamental laws of the United States: it consists of the seven original articles, adopted in 1789, and twenty-seven amendments
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the morn's nicht — tomorrow night
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
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