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20-letter words containing e, l, i, p

  • spectrophotoelectric — pertaining to the relationship between the wavelength of the incident radiation and the number of electrons released by a photoelectric substance.
  • spherical aberration — variation in focal length of a lens or mirror from center to edge, due to its spherical shape.
  • spherical coordinate — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
  • spiral of archimedes — a curve that is the locus of a point that moves outward with uniform speed along a vector, beginning at the origin, while the vector rotates about the origin with uniform angular velocity. Equation (in polar coordinates): r = aθ.
  • splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
  • 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.
  • spread like wildfire — If something, especially news or a rumour, spreads like wildfire, it spreads extremely quickly.
  • spuyten duyvil creek — a channel in New York City at the north end of Manhattan Island, connecting the Hudson and Harlem rivers.
  • staff of aesculapius — a representation of a forked staff with an entwining serpent, used as a symbol of the medical profession and as the insignia of the American Medical Association and other medical organizations. Compare caduceus (def 2).
  • state highway patrol — a state's road traffic police
  • synoptic meteorology — a branch of meteorology analyzing data collected simultaneously over a wide region, for the purpose of weather forecasting.
  • synthetic philosophy — the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, intended as a synthesis of all the sciences.
  • take up a collection — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • telephone subscriber — a person who subscribes to a telephone service
  • teletype corporation — (company)   The company which made Teletype teletypewriters. Address: Skokie, Illinois, USA.
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • the beautiful people — rich, fashionable people in international high society
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • theosophical society — a society founded by Madame Blavatsky and others, in New York in 1875, advocating a worldwide eclectic religion based largely on Brahmanic and Buddhistic teachings.
  • to line your pockets — If you say that someone is lining their own or someone else's pockets, you disapprove of them because they are making money dishonestly or unfairly.
  • travel-sickness pill — a pill which is used to relieve the symptoms of travel or motion sickness, the condition of being nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • triphenylmethane dye — any of a great number of dyes, as gentian violet, fuchsin, and rosaniline, produced from triphenylmethane by replacement of the ring hydrogen atoms with hydroxy, amino, sulfo, or other atoms or groups.
  • triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading.
  • tropical continental — a type of warm, dry air mass originating at low latitudes over land areas
  • tropical disturbance — a very weak, or incipient, tropical cyclone.
  • turnip-rooted celery — celeriac.
  • unemployment benefit — an allowance of money paid, usually weekly, to an unemployed worker by a state or federal agency or by the worker's labor union or former employer during all or part of the period of unemployment.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • unique selling point — a feature of a product that is emphasized in advertising material and sales presentations
  • united arab republic — a name given the union of Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961; after that, the official name of Egypt alone until 1971. Abbreviation: U.A.R.
  • upper yosemite falls — a section of Yosemite Falls in central California, in the Yosemite National Park that is 436 m (1430 ft) high
  • vertical envelopment — envelopment of an enemy accomplished by parachuting and landing airborne troops at the rear of the enemy's position.
  • visually handicapped — unable to carry out normal activities because of defects of vision, including blindness
  • white bush (scallop) — a variety of summer squash having a saucer-shaped white fruit, scalloped around the edges
  • white elephant stall — a stall, usually at a fete or fundraising event, where unwanted possessions are sold
  • white people problem — a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.
  • white-lipped peccary — a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu albirostris, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • wipe the slate clean — begin afresh
  • with all due respect — despite my regard for you
  • woolly spider monkey — a rare related monkey, Brachyteles arachnoides, of SE Brazil
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
  • yellow-billed magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
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