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  • stalling angle — critical angle (def 2).
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • state religion — the official religion of a state as established by law.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
  • stigmatophilia — a love for body piercing or tattooing that is accompanied by sexual arousal
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • straight angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one half of the circle; an angle of 180°.
  • straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
  • straight stall — a narrow, oblong stall in which a horse or other animal cannot turn around.
  • straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
  • straining sill — (in a roof with a queen post) a compression member lying along the tie beam and separating the feet of the struts.
  • strike a light — to ignite something, esp a match, by friction
  • strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • surgical shock — a state of shock that can occur during or after surgery
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
  • tailgate party — A tailgate party is a social gathering at which food is served from or near a vehicle, especially in a parking lot before a sports game.
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • tate galleries — two art galleries in London, the original Tate Gallery (1897), now Tate Britain, and Tate Modern, created in the former Bankside power station in 2000
  • tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
  • teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
  • telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • thanatological — relating to thanatology, the study of death and dying
  • thaumaturgical — pertaining to a thaumaturge or to thaumaturgy.
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • thermal imager — a piece of equipment used to detect or provide images of people or things
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
  • track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
  • traffic lights — a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic
  • trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
  • training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
  • training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
  • transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
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