18-letter words containing c, y, m, o, t
- rhyming dictionary — a specialist dictionary organized by the final sounds of words, used to write poetry
- room occupancy tax — Room occupancy tax is a tax that guests at a hotel have to pay in order to stay there.
- running commentary — non-stop description of sth
- significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
- sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
- sodium thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
- spectrocolorimetry — the quantitative measure of colors by spectrophotometry.
- spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
- st john chrysostom — Saint John, a.d. 347?–407, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
- state of emergency — If a government or other authority declares a state of emergency in an area, it introduces special measures such as increased powers for the police or army, usually because of civil disorder or because of a natural disaster such as an earthquake.
- stockholm syndrome — an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.
- stoichiometrically — of or relating to stoichiometry.
- stokely carmichael — Hoagland Howard [hohg-luh nd] /ˈhoʊg lənd/ (Show IPA), ("Hoagy") 1899–1981, U.S. songwriter and musician.
- symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
- symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
- synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
- systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
- television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
- the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to cross your mind — If you say that an idea or possibility never crossed your mind, you mean that you did not think of it.
- to meet your match — If you meet your match, you find that you are competing or fighting against someone who you cannot beat because they are as good as you, or better than you.
- to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
- track geometry car — a railroad car equipped with instruments for providing a continuous printed record of the cross level, gauge, alignment, warp, curvature, and bank of a track.
- two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
- urban contemporary — popular dance music incorporating elements of rap, rhythm-and-blues, funk, and soul.
- x-ray spectrometer — a spectrometer using x-rays to activate the inner electrons of an atom in order to separate and identify the chemical constituents of a substance and their concentrations.
- x-ray spectrometry — the use of an x-ray spectrometer.