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23-letter words containing e, n, d, s

  • real simple syndication — (spelling)   Illiterate form of Really Simple Syndication.
  • rectangular coordinates — Usually, rectangular coordinates. either of two Cartesian coordinates in which the axes meet at right angles.
  • red-bellied black snake — a highly venomous Australian black snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, with a reddish underside
  • refinery waste disposal — Refinery waste disposal is the system for dealing with waste materials, especially hazardous ones, in a refinery.
  • residual current device — a circuit-breaking device installed in electrical equipment to protect the operator from electrocution
  • residual debt insurance — Residual debt insurance is a type of risk insurance that banks often require when granting a loan, which is used to guarantee that the loan is repaid in the event of death or disability.
  • respondent conditioning — conditioning (def 2).
  • route of administration — A route of administration is the means by which a drug or agent enters the body, such as by mouth or by injection.
  • rsa data security, inc. — (cryptography, company)   (After Rivest, Shamir, Adleman - see RSA) A recognised world leader in cryptography, with millions of copies of its software encryption and authentication installed and in use worldwide. RSA's technologies are the global de facto standard for public key cryptography and digital signatures, and are part of existing and proposed standards for the Internet, ITU-T, ISO, ANSI, PKCS, IEEE and business and financial networks around the world.
  • saddle block anesthesia — a form of spinal anesthesia that produces loss of sensation in the buttocks, perineum, and inner thighs.
  • sb doesn't miss a trick — If you say that someone does not miss a trick, you mean that they always know what is happening and take advantage of every situation.
  • scientific data systems — (company)   (SDS) The company that produced the SDS 940 (later renamed XDS 940). Around 1968 Xerox bought out SDS and renamed the SDS machines to XDS.
  • secondary modern school — (formerly) a secondary school offering a more technical or practical and less academic education than a grammar school
  • secondary seventh chord — a chord formed by superposition of three thirds upon any degree of the scale except the dominant.
  • secondary sex character — any of a number of manifestations, as development of breasts or beard, muscularity, distribution of fat tissue, and change of pitch in voice, specific to each sex and incipient at puberty but not essential to reproduction.
  • security association id — (networking)   (SAID) A 32-bit field added to packet headers for encryption and authentication in the proposed Internet Protocol Version 6.
  • see someone to the door — If you see someone to the door, you go to the door with a visitor when they leave.
  • self-addressed envelope — addressed to self
  • set one's teeth on edge — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
  • severinus de monzambano — Samuel von [zah-moo-uh l fuh n] /ˈzɑ mu əl fən/ (Show IPA), ("Severinus de Monzambano") 1632–94, German jurist and historian.
  • sheltered accommodation — housing specially designed to provide a safe environment for the elderly, handicapped, or disabled, often with some shared facilities and a caretaker
  • short-billed marsh wren — sedge wren.
  • sidewalk superintendent — a bystander who watches the building, demolition, repair, or other work being done at a construction site.
  • sierra madre occidental — the system of mountains in the west of Mexico
  • sign on the dotted line — a line on a contract or similar document for a party's signature.
  • snap someone's head off — to cut, wound, or tear with the teeth: She bit the apple greedily. The lion bit his trainer.
  • social education centre — a daycentre, run by a local authority, for people with learning disabilities and sometimes also for people who have physical disabilities or are mentally ill
  • somaliland protectorate — official name of the former British Somaliland.
  • specialite de la maison — the specialty of the house (used in referring to the most important dish served by a restaurant).
  • spigot and socket joint — a joint between two pipes using male and female parts
  • split-fingered fastball — a pitch, similar to the forkball but thrown with the same arm speed as a fastball, that drops suddenly as it nears the batter.
  • st. pierre and miquelon — two small groups of islands off the S coast of Newfoundland: an overseas territory of France; important base for fishing. 3 sq. mi. (240 sq. km). Capital: St. Pierre.
  • stand on one's own feet — a plural of foot.
  • stand up and be counted — express opinion
  • standard widget toolkit — (graphics, programming, standard)   (SWT) The Eclipse Foundation's framework for developing graphical user interfaces in Java. SWT is written in explicitly standard Java but uses the Java Native Interface to talk to a platform-native GUI library. SWT is the third major attempt to give Java a decent GUI framework, following AWT and Swing. Of the three, SWT is the most consistent with the native GUIs but its programming model is hard to port to non-Windows platforms.
  • state coordinate system — a system of right-angled planar coordinates established by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for each state in the United States.
  • state-trading countries — countries whose export and import trading is government controlled
  • steal someone's thunder — to strike, drive, inflict, give forth, etc., with loud noise or violent action.
  • stock and station agent — a firm dealing in and financing farm activities
  • suit down to the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • sustainable development — supporting economy via renewable resources
  • swine vesicular disease — a viral disease of swine characterized by vesicular lesions on the feet, legs, snout, and tongue
  • take into consideration — take account of, allow for
  • take it into one's head — If somebody takes it into their head to do something, especially something strange or foolish, they suddenly decide to do it.
  • take sth in your stride — In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your stride, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in stride.
  • talk someone's head off — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • the department of state — the United States federal department concerned with foreign policy
  • the haves and have-nots — the people who are very wealthy and the people who are very poor
  • the whys and wherefores — The whys and wherefores of something are the reasons for it.
  • there is no holding him — he is so spirited or resolute that he cannot be restrained
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