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18-letter words containing e, a, s, t, p

  • spare-part surgery — surgical replacement of defective or damaged organs by transplant or insertion of artificial devices
  • special assessment — a tax levied by a local government on private property to pay the cost of local public improvements, as sidewalk construction or sewage disposal, that are of general benefit to the property taxed.
  • special collection — a collection of materials segregated from a general library collection according to form, subject, age, condition, rarity, source, or value.
  • special prosecutor — (formerly) an independent counsel.
  • special relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
  • specialist teacher — a teacher with expertise in working with children with special educational needs, such as dyslexia
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark)   A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • spectropolarimeter — an instrument for determining the extent to which plane-polarized light of various wavelengths is rotated by certain solutions, consisting of a combination of a spectroscope and a polarimeter.
  • spectropolariscope — an instrument combining the functions of a spectroscope with those of a polariscope.
  • sperry corporation — (company)   The company which merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation. Divisions included Sperry Univac, Sperry Flight Systems, and others. Some of these were sold off after the merger.
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • spinal anaesthesia — anaesthesia of the lower half of the body produced by injecting an anaesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane surrounding the spinal cord
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • st. james's palace — a palace in London, England: the royal residence from the time of Henry VIII until the accession of Victoria.
  • st. peter's square — a square surrounded by colonnades, forming a boundary of and an entrance to Vatican City, leading to St. Peter's: designed by Giovanni Bernini and built during the 17th century.
  • stand-by passenger — someone who buys a (usually cheaper) ticket, if they are still available, on a plane just before it is about to leave rather than booking in advance
  • status epilepticus — a condition in which repeated epileptic seizures occur without the patient gaining consciousness between them. If untreated for a prolonged period it can lead to long-term disability or death
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • sturt's desert pea — the desert pea
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • super royal octavo — a book size, 63⁄4 by 101⁄4 inches
  • super royal quarto — a book size, 101⁄4 by 131⁄2 inches
  • 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.
  • swartkrans ape-man — the fossil remains of the extinct hominid Australopithecus robustus, found at Swartkrans, Republic of South Africa: formerly classified in the genus Paranthropus.
  • 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.
  • symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
  • 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.
  • systems programmer — a person whose job is to program systems software
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • terrestrial planet — inner planet.
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
  • the lords temporal — (in Britain) peers other than bishops in their capacity as members of the House of Lords
  • the middle passage — the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas
  • the palmetto state — a nickname for South Carolina
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