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21-letter words containing c, o, l, r, s

  • spherical coordinates — 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.
  • sport utility vehicle — a rugged vehicle with a trucklike chassis and four-wheel drive, designed for occasional off-road use. Abbreviation: SUV.
  • sport-utility vehicle — a rugged vehicle with a trucklike chassis and four-wheel drive, designed for occasional off-road use. Abbreviation: SUV.
  • stabilization-process — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • statutory declaration — a declaration made under statutory authority before a justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths which may in certain cases be substituted for a statement on oath
  • steer clear of sb/sth — If you steer clear of someone or something, you deliberately avoid them.
  • stock list department — (in an American stock exchange) the department dealing with monitoring compliance with its listing requirements and rules
  • stockholder of record — a stockholder or his or her agent whose name is registered on the books of the issuing corporation at the close of a business day set for determining that stockholders shall receive dividends or vote on an issue.
  • stop loss reinsurance — Stop loss reinsurance is a form of reinsurance under which the reinsurer pays the cedant's losses in any year over a particular percentage of the earned premium.
  • structural psychology — psychology centering on the analysis of the structure or content of conscious mental states by introspective methods.
  • subliminal perception — perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness
  • summary court-martial — a court-martial composed of one commissioned officer, authorized to try minor offenses against military law.
  • sunday school teacher — someone who teaches at a Sunday school
  • supergranulation cell — one of a number of large convection cells in the photosphere and chromosphere of the sun, each having a diameter of 10,000–20,000 miles (16,000–32,000 km) and lasting longer than a day.
  • surface of revolution — a surface formed by revolving a plane curve about a given line.
  • tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
  • terrestrial telescope — a refracting telescope having inverting lenses or an eyepiece that presents an erect image.
  • tetrabromofluorescein — eosin (def 1).
  • the central provinces — the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  • the fall of the cards — the chance distribution of cards in a given deal
  • the household cavalry — a group of British soldiers on horseback who have the job of protecting the king or queen and their family
  • the royal scots greys — (formerly) a British cavalry regiment, the Second Dragoons
  • theoretical physicist — a scientist who studies theoretical physics
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
  • throw sb a curve ball — If someone throws you a curve or throws you a curve ball, they surprise you by doing something that you do not expect.
  • to be hard luck on sb — to be unfortunate or unlucky for someone
  • to pull your socks up — If you tell someone to pull their socks up, you mean that they should start working or studying harder, because they have been lazy or careless.
  • topgallant forecastle — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; forecastle deck.
  • total recoverable gas — Total recoverable gas is the amount of gas which is still left in the ground in gas fields that have already been worked.
  • university of iceland — (body, education)   The Home of Fjolnir.
  • up close and personal — face to face, intimately
  • voice-stress analyzer — a machine purported to detect stress in a human voice and to ascertain a person's truthfulness.
  • voluntary association — a group of individuals joined together on the basis of mutual interest or common objectives, especially a business group that is not organized or constituted as a legal entity.
  • volunteers of america — a religious reform and relief organization, similar to the Salvation Army, founded in New York City in 1896 by Ballington Booth, son of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. Abbreviation: VOA.
  • warm silence software — A small company run by(?) Robin Watts, producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • wet collodion process — a photographic process, in common use in the mid-19th century, employing a glass photographic plate coated with iodized collodion and dipped in a silver nitrate solution immediately before use.
  • wholesale price index — an indicator of price changes in the wholesale market
  • x-ray crystallography — the determination of the structure of a crystal by the use of x-ray diffraction.
  • zero-emission vehicle — a vehicle, as an automobile, that does not directly produce atmospheric pollutants. Abbreviation: ZEV.
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