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16-letter words containing c, t, u

  • st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • 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
  • start-up capital — capital used to set up a new business
  • start-up company — new business
  • statutory change — a change in the law
  • stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stick out a mile — to be extremely obvious
  • stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
  • stinging capsule — a nematocyst.
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • stop-loss clause — a limitation on the amount of loss sustained by the insured without compensation in a given period.
  • strict inclusion — the relation between two sets that obtains when all the members of the first are members of the second
  • structural steel — the variety of steel shapes rolled for use in construction.
  • 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
  • substance abuser — a person who takes an excessive amount of drugs in a manner that is detrimental to health
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • 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
  • summa theologica — a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.
  • 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.
  • superficialities — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • 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.
  • susceptibilities — emotional sensibilities; feelings
  • suspense account — an account in which items are temporarily entered until their final disposition is determined.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • taurocholic acid — an acid, C 26 H 45 NO 7 S, occurring as a sodium salt in the bile of carnivorous animals, which on hydrolysis yields taurine and cholic acid.
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • the annunciation — the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38)
  • the caine mutiny — a novel by Herman Wouk, later made into a film
  • the common touch — If you say that someone has the common touch, you mean that they have the natural ability to have a good relationship with ordinary people and be popular with them.
  • 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 cuckoo's egg — A great book (and subsequent BBC TV series) telling the true story of Clifford Stoll, an astronomy professor at UCB's Lawrence Berkeley Lab. A 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorised user (a cracker) on his system. The cracker, code named "Hunter", was breaking into US computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Hunter was part of a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
  • the early church — the Christian church in the centuries immediately following Christ's death
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
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