14-letter words containing c, o, t, u
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- scalar product — inner product (def 1).
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- scissors truss — a roof truss having tension members extending from the foot of each principal rafter to a point on the upper half of its opposite member.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- scrape through — only just succeed
- scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
- self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
- semi-automatic — partly automatic.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
- sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
- shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- sicstus prolog — A Prolog from the SICS (Swedish Inst of Comp Sci). E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: [email protected]
- silent auction — an auction at which previously submitted written bids of prospective buyers are opened and compared, with each item being sold to the highest bidder.
- size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
- ski instructor — sb who teaches skiing
- slate-coloured — like slate in colour
- slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
- social studies — a course of instruction in an elementary or secondary school comprising such subjects as history, geography, civics, etc.
- sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
- sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- solicitousness — anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
- somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
- southern cross — Also called Cross. Astronomy. a southern constellation between Centaurus and Musca. Compare Northern Cross.
- southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
- southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
- speckled trout — brook trout (def 1).
- spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- staphylococcus — any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus, occurring in pairs, tetrads, and irregular clusters, certain species of which, as S. aureus, can be pathogenic for humans.
- start-up costs — the costs of setting up a business or other project
- startle colour — a bright region of an animal's coloration, normally hidden from view and often part of a design resembling birds' eyes, etc, exposed when the animal is disturbed by a predator
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
- stercoricolous — (of an organism) living in dung