18-letter words containing e, a, s, i
- stinking chamomile — mayweed.
- 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.
- strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
- strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- street certificate — a certificate showing ownership of a specified number of shares of stock: endorsed by the owner and guaranteed by a broker, it may be traded without formal transfer on the books of the corporation issuing the stock.
- strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
- strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
- subatomic particle — physics:
- subliminal message — a message passed to the human mind without the mind being consciously aware of it, as, for example, in advertising
- submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
- subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
- sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
- summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
- sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- superciliary ridge — browridge.
- superior vena cava — See under vena cava.
- supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
- supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
- supraorbital ridge — browridge.
- surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
- swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
- swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
- sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
- sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
- sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
- system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
- 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.
- take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
- take out insurance — take out insurance against something
- take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
- take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
- tale of two cities — a historical novel (1859) by Dickens.
- talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
- tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
- teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
- technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
- technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
- telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
- television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
- television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
- television station — station (def 8).
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- terrestrial planet — inner planet.