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18-letter words containing e, n, s, o, r

  • spread one's wings — to make full use of one's abilities
  • spur-of-the-moment — occurring or done without advance preparation or deliberation; extemporaneous; unplanned: a spur-of-the-moment decision.
  • squinting modifier — a word or phrase that can modify either the words that precede it or those that follow, as frequently in the sentence Studying frequently is tedious.
  • st. andrew's cross — a low evergreen shrub, Ascyrum hypericoides, native to temperate and subtropical America, having flowers in clusters of three: often cultivated.
  • stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • standard deviation — a measure of dispersion in a frequency distribution, equal to the square root of the mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean of the distribution.
  • state of emergency — If a government or other authority declares a state of emergency in an area, it introduces special measures such as increased powers for the police or army, usually because of civil disorder or because of a natural disaster such as an earthquake.
  • stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
  • steering committee — a committee, especially of a deliberative or legislative body, charged with preparing the agenda of a session.
  • steller's sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • stockholm syndrome — an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.
  • store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • stretch one's legs — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
  • strong derived set — the set of all strong accumulation points of a given set.
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • strontium monoxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
  • sunflower seed oil — the oil extracted from sunflower seeds, used as a salad oil, in the manufacture of margarine, etc
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • superior vena cava — See under vena cava.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
  • symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • 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).
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • 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
  • terms of reference — Terms of reference are the instructions given to someone when they are asked to consider or investigate a particular subject, telling them what they must deal with and what they can ignore.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • the northern irish — the people who live in or come from Northern Ireland
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • there's no telling — You use there's no telling to introduce a statement when you want to say that it is impossible to know what will happen in a situation.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
  • thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
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