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18-letter words containing i, c, e, p

  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • sierra blanca peak — a mountain in S New Mexico: highest peak in the Sacramento Mountains. 11,997 feet (3651 meters).
  • sit up like jackie — to sit bolt upright, esp cheekily
  • sleeping policeman — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding
  • sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • spanish succession — War of thea war (1701-14) between European powers disputing the succession to the Spanish throne
  • special assessment — a tax levied by a local government on private property to pay the cost of local public improvements, as sidewalk construction or sewage disposal, that are of general benefit to the property taxed.
  • special collection — a collection of materials segregated from a general library collection according to form, subject, age, condition, rarity, source, or value.
  • special prosecutor — (formerly) an independent counsel.
  • special relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
  • specialist teacher — a teacher with expertise in working with children with special educational needs, such as dyslexia
  • specific viscosity — a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid, expressed as the ratio of the absolute viscosity of the fluid to that of a reference fluid (usually water in the case of liquids)
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • spectrocolorimetry — the quantitative measure of colors by spectrophotometry.
  • spectrofluorimeter — an instrument in which the spectrum of secondarily emitted fluorescent light is used to identify chemical compounds.
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • spectropolarimeter — an instrument for determining the extent to which plane-polarized light of various wavelengths is rotated by certain solutions, consisting of a combination of a spectroscope and a polarimeter.
  • spectropolariscope — an instrument combining the functions of a spectroscope with those of a polariscope.
  • speech recognition — Computers. the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
  • speech synthesizer — device that imitates human voice
  • sperry corporation — (company)   The company which merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation. Divisions included Sperry Univac, Sperry Flight Systems, and others. Some of these were sold off after the merger.
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • split-level cooker — a cooker that is designed with a separate oven and hob so that they can be fitted wherever is most convenient in the kitchen
  • status epilepticus — a condition in which repeated epileptic seizures occur without the patient gaining consciousness between them. If untreated for a prolonged period it can lead to long-term disability or death
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • superior vena cava — See under vena cava.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • talent competition — a contest in which people compete by showcasing their talents, for example in singing, dancing, acrobatics, etc
  • teaching equipment — teaching aids
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
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