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20-letter words containing d, c, s

  • split the difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
  • spotted crane's-bill — the American wild geranium, Geranium maculatum.
  • spuyten duyvil creek — a channel in New York City at the north end of Manhattan Island, connecting the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
  • stallman, richard m. — Richard Stallman
  • stockholders' equity — the net assets of a corporation as owned by stockholders in capital stock, capital surplus, and undistributed earnings.
  • string correspondent — stringer (def 6).
  • subjective idea-list — a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.
  • subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.
  • subscription edition — an edition of one or more volumes for which a number of prospective purchasers place orders, usually in advance of publication.
  • sufficient condition — a statement whose truth is sufficient to guarantee the truth of a given statement
  • summary jurisdiction — the right a court has to adjudicate immediately upon some matter arising during its proceedings
  • swan's neck pediment — a broken pediment, the outline of which consists of a pair of S -curves tangent to the cornice level at the ends of the pediment, rising to a pair of scrolls on either side of the center, where a finial often rises between the scrolls.
  • switchboard operator — a person who operates an installation in a telephone exchange, office, hotel, etc, at which the interconnection of telephone lines is manually controlled
  • symmetric difference — the union of the relative complements of two sets.
  • synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
  • television broadcast — sth shown on tv
  • terms and conditions — commerce: rules, restrictions
  • terrestrial guidance — a method of missile or rocket guidance in which the flight path is controlled by reference to the strength and direction of the earth's gravitational or magnetic field
  • the methodist church — a group of people within the Christian religion who follow a system of faith and practice initiated by the English preacher John Wesley (1703–91) and his followers
  • the ten commandments — the commandments summarizing the basic obligations of man towards God and his fellow men, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai engraved on two tables of stone (Exodus 20:1–17)
  • the-comedy-of-errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • thermodynamic system — a system whose states of equilibrium can be specified by a few macroscopic properties.
  • thioantimonious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3SbS3, HSbS2, and H4Sb2S5, known only in the forms of their salts in solution
  • thomas of erceldoune — Thomas of, Thomas of Erceldoune.
  • to cost someone dear — If something that someone does costs them dear, they suffer a lot as a result of it.
  • to disturb the peace — If someone is accused of disturbing the peace, they are accused of behaving in a noisy and offensive way in public.
  • toxic shock syndrome — a rapidly developing, sometimes fatal infection characterized by sudden onset of fever, gastrointestinal upsets, a sunburnlike rash, and a drop in blood pressure: caused by a Staphylococcus aureus toxin and occurring especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Abbreviation: TSS.
  • track-train dynamics — the interaction between the track and a moving train.
  • tradesman's entrance — the entrance to a large house used by tradesmen to deliver goods and services; usually at the side or rear of the house
  • transcendental logic — (in Kantian epistemology) the study of the mind with reference to its perceptions of external objects and to the objective truth of such perceptions.
  • transposed conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • troilus and cressida — a satiric comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare.
  • tropical disturbance — a very weak, or incipient, tropical cyclone.
  • twisted stomach worm — stomach worm.
  • uncertificated share — a share of a mutual fund credited to the account of a shareholder without the physical issuance of a certificate evidencing ownership.
  • under the microscope — If you say that something is under the microscope, you mean that it is being studied very closely, usually because it is believed that something is wrong with it.
  • unified screw thread — a screw thread system introduced for defence equipment (1939–44), in which the thread form and pitch were a compromise between British Standard Whitworth and American Standard Sellers: adopted by the International Standards Organization
  • university education — a course of study undertaken and completed at a university
  • unsaddling enclosure — the area at a racecourse where horses are unsaddled after a race and often where awards are given to owners, trainers, and jockeys
  • van der waals forces — weak electrostatic forces between atoms and molecules caused by transient distortions in the distribution of electrons in the interacting atoms or molecules
  • vertical divestiture — the disposal of some or all the subsidiaries that make up a company's vertical combination through voluntary sale or legal compulsion.
  • video graphics array — (hardware)   (VGA) A display standard for IBM PCs, with 640 x 480 pixels in 16 colours and a 4:3 aspect ratio. There is also a text mode with 720 x 400 pixels. IBM technical references define the *product name* of their original VGA display board as "Video Graphics Array", in contrast to the preceding boards, the "Color Graphics Adapter" (CGA) and "Enhanced Graphics Adapter" (EGA). See also Super Video Graphics Adapter.
  • visual merchandising — Visual merchandising is the use of attractive displays and floor plans to increase customer numbers and sales volumes.
  • visually handicapped — unable to carry out normal activities because of defects of vision, including blindness
  • vitoria de conquista — a city in Bahía state, E central Brazil.
  • wait-and-see tactics — methods of achieving what you want in a particular political situation that involve biding your time for events to run their course
  • webster's dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
  • weston standard cell — a primary cell used as a standard of emf, producing 1.018636 volts: consists of a mercury anode and a cadmium amalgam cathode in an electrolyte of saturated cadmium sulphate
  • wilson cloud chamber — cloud chamber.
  • winsoft products ltd — (company)   The company which produces EMBLA Pro. E-mail: WinSoft Products Ltd <[email protected]>
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