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20-letter words containing e, a, s, t

  • 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.
  • suitland-silver hill — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • summative assessment — general assessment of a pupil's achievements over a range of subjects by means of a combined appraisal of formative assessments
  • sunday-go-to-meeting — most presentable; best: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
  • supersonic transport — a commercial jet airplane that can fly faster than the speed of sound. Abbreviation: SST.
  • supplemental plumage — the third plumage assumed by certain birds having three different plumages in their annual cycle of molts.
  • supplementary angles — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
  • surface-active agent — any substance that when dissolved in water or an aqueous solution reduces its surface tension or the interfacial tension between it and another liquid.
  • surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
  • 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.
  • sweat one's guts out — to work very hard
  • sweetheart agreement — a contract made through collusion between management and labor representatives containing terms beneficial to management and detrimental to union workers.
  • 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
  • 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
  • system international — Système International d'Unités
  • systemic circulation — the circulatory system in general.
  • take into one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • take pity on someone — If you take pity on someone, you feel sorry for them and help them.
  • take sides/sb's side — If you take sides or take someone's side in an argument or war, you support one of the sides against the other.
  • take something amiss — to be annoyed or offended by something
  • take to the cleaners — a person who cleans, especially one whose regular occupation is cleaning offices, buildings, equipment, etc.
  • telesales department — the department of a company that deals with telesales
  • television broadcast — sth shown on tv
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • tenants' association — an organization of tenants, usually with a written constitution and charitable status, whose aim is to improve the housing conditions, amenities, community life, and contractual positions of its members
  • 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
  • tetrahydrogestrinone — a synthetic anabolic steroid. Formula: C21H28O2
  • that makes two of us — the same applies to me
  • the (great) pyramids — the three large pyramids at Gîza, Egypt: the largest is the Pyramid of Khufu
  • the (great) unwashed — The unwashed or the great unwashed is a way of referring to poor or ordinary people.
  • the canterbury tales — an uncompleted sequence of tales by Chaucer, written for the most part after 1387.
  • the centennial state — a nickname for Colorado
  • the course of nature — the ordinary course of events
  • the founding fathers — any of the men who were members of the U.S. Constituional Convention of 1787
  • the garment industry — the manufacturing of items of clothing
  • the grass is greener — If you say the grass is greener somewhere else, you mean that other people's situations always seem better or more attractive than your own, but may not really be so.
  • the greater antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico
  • the high renaissance — the period from about the 1490s to the 1520s in painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, esp in Italy, when the Renaissance ideals were considered to have been attained through the mastery of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael
  • the last word in sth — If you say that something is the last word in luxury, comfort, or some other quality, you are emphasizing that it has a great deal of this quality.
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • the naughty nineties — (in Britain) the 1890s, considered to be a period of fun-loving and laxity, esp in sexual morals
  • the roaring twenties — a phrase used to describe the decade of the 1920s (esp in America), so called due to the social, artistic, and cultural dynamism of the period
  • the shit hit the fan — If someone says that the shit hit the fan, they mean that there was suddenly a lot of trouble or angry arguments.
  • the sum total of sth — all of something
  • 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 thousand guineas — an annual horse race, restricted to fillies, run at Newmarket since 1814
  • the way of the cross — a series of images in a church or along a road to a church etc depicting the last hours of Christ
  • the whole nine yards — everything that is required; the whole thing
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