22-letter words containing e, g, l, s, t
- satellite broadcasting — the transmission of television or radio programmes from an artificial satellite at a power suitable for direct reception in the home
- saturday night special — a cheap, small-caliber handgun that is easily obtainable and concealable.
- saturday-night special — a cheap, small-caliber handgun that is easily obtainable and concealable.
- scalable sampling rate — (compression, standard, algorithm) (SSR) See, e.g., MPEG-4 AAC SSR.
- see the light (of day) — to come into existence
- self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
- single virtual storage — OS/VS2
- sleeping accommodation — place where people can sleep
- slip something over on — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- social networking site — a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
- special drawing rights — the reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund on which member nations may draw in proportion to their contribution to the Fund
- special interest group — (SIG) One of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. Well-known SIGs include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics).
- special-interest group — Also called special interest. a body of persons, corporation, or industry that seeks or receives benefits or privileged treatment, especially through legislation.
- spelling pronunciation — a pronunciation based on spelling, usually a variant of the traditional pronunciation. The spelling pronunciation of waistcoat is [weyst-koht] /ˈweɪstˌkoʊt/ (Show IPA) rather than [wes-kuh t] /ˈwɛs kət/ (Show IPA).
- spherical trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry that deals with spherical triangles.
- start the ball rolling — to open or initiate (an action, discussion, movement, etc)
- straining at the leash — eagerly impatient to begin something
- structural engineering — the branch of civil engineering dealing with the design and planning of large structures
- struggle for existence — the competition in nature among organisms of a population to maintain themselves in a given environment and to survive to reproduce others of their kind.
- subliminal advertising — a form of advertising on film or television that employs subliminal images to influence the viewer unconsciously
- talk through one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- the chattering classes — the educated sections of society, considered as enjoying discussion of political, social, and cultural issues
- the edinburgh festival — an arts festival held in Edinburgh in August
- the long-hours culture — the prevailing view that it is normal to work long hours; the practice of working long hours
- the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).
- thermal imaging system — equipment providing images of a target, or of a person or thing under examination
- through-the-lens meter — a light meter employing a sensor cell located behind the taking lens.
- time-lapse photography — the photographing on motion-picture film of a slow and continuous process, as the growth of a plant, at regular intervals, especially by exposing a single frame at a time, for projection at a higher speed.
- to be full to bursting — to be very full
- to have the last laugh — If you say that you have the last laugh, you mean that you become successful at something so that people who criticize or oppose you look foolish.
- to open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
- total allergy syndrome — a condition in which a person suffers from a large number of symptoms that are claimed to be caused by allergies to various substances used or encountered in modern life
- user datagram protocol — (protocol) (UDP) Internet standard network layer, transport layer and session layer protocols which provide simple but unreliable datagram services. UDP is defined in STD 6, RFC 768. It adds a checksum and additional process-to-process addressing information [to what?]. UDP is a connectionless protocol which, like TCP, is layered on top of IP. UDP neither guarantees delivery nor does it require a connection. As a result it is lightweight and efficient, but all error processing and retransmission must be taken care of by the application program.
- voluntary manslaughter — the unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought but in mitigating circumstances
- wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
- west greenland current — an ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Greenland.
- white-tailed sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
- with all the trimmings — if you say that something comes with all the trimmings, you mean that it has many extra things added to it to make it more special