22-letter words containing i, n, s, t, u, o

reproductive isolation — the conditions, as physiological or behavioral differences or geographical barriers, that prevent potentially interbreeding populations from cross-fertilization.
revolutions per minute — (unit) (rpm, rarely: rotations per minute) A unit of angular velocity equal to 1/60 of a revolution per second.
rheumatoid spondylitis — ankylosing spondylitis.
rocky mountain oysters — mountain oyster.
round-table discussion — a discussion held at a meeting of parties or people on equal terms
rural district council — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and Northern Ireland from 1898 to 1973) a group of people elected to govern a rural division of a county
sales force automation — (business) (Sales Automation, SFA, SFFA, Sales & Field Force Automation) Software to support sales reps. The software gives sales representitives access to contacts, appointments and e-mail. It is likely to be integrated with Customer Relationship Management systems and Opportunity Management Systems.
second vatican council — the twenty-first Roman Catholic ecumenical council (1962–65) convened by Pope John XXIII. Its 16 documents redefined the nature of the church, gave bishops greater influence in church affairs, and increased lay participation in liturgy.
secondary articulation — coarticulation (def 2).
secondary-articulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
shaken but not stirred — If you say that someone has been shaken but not stirred by an experience, you mean that they have been slightly disturbed or emotionally affected by it, but not deeply enough to change their behaviour or way of thinking.
simultaneous broadcast — a programme, etc, broadcast simultaneously on radio and television
simultaneous equations — a set of two or more equations, each containing two or more variables whose values can simultaneously satisfy both or all the equations in the set, the number of variables being equal to or less than the number of equations in the set.
single virtual storage — OS/VS2
small business edition — Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
social security number — A Social Security number is a nine digit number that is given to U.S. citizens and to people living in the U.S. You need it to get a job, collect Social Security benefits and receive some government services.
solid dose formulation — A solid dose formation is a hard tablet made by compressing medicine in a powder form.
somatic nervous system — the section of the nervous system responsible for sensation and control of the skeletal muscles
south african republic — former name of Transvaal.
south atlantic current — an eastward-flowing ocean current formed by the merging of the Brazil Current and the southward-flowing current near the Falkland Islands and forming the southern part of the general circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean.
south sandwich islands — a group of volcanic islands, administered by England, in the South Atlantic Ocean: part of the Falkland Islands dependency. 120 sq. mi. (310 sq. km).
south shetland islands — a group of uninhabited islands in the S Atlantic, north of the Antarctic Peninsula: formerly a dependency of the Falkland Islands; part of British Antarctic Territory since 1962. (Claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty). Area: 4662 sq km (1800 sq miles)
special interest group — (SIG) One of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. Well-known SIGs include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics).
special-interest group — Also called special interest. a body of persons, corporation, or industry that seeks or receives benefits or privileged treatment, especially through legislation.
spelling pronunciation — a pronunciation based on spelling, usually a variant of the traditional pronunciation. The spelling pronunciation of waistcoat is [weyst-koht] /ˈweɪstˌkoʊt/ (Show IPA) rather than [wes-kuh t] /ˈwɛs kət/ (Show IPA).
split-dollar insurance — life insurance in which someone helps pay the premiums for another, as when an employer contributes to the premiums of an employee's policy.
spontaneous combustion — the ignition of a substance or body from the rapid oxidation of its own constituents without heat from any external source.
spontaneous generation — abiogenesis.
sports injuries clinic — a medical clinic that specializes in treating sports injuries
st-pierre and miquelon — group of islands in the Atlantic, south of Newfoundland, constituting a political unit of France: includes the islands of St-Pierre (c. 10 sq mi, 26 sq km) & Miquelon & several islets: 93 sq mi (241 sq km); pop. 6,000
statute of limitations — a statute defining the period within which legal action may be taken.
statute of westminster — the act of Parliament (1931) that formally recognized the independence of the dominions within the Empire
strait of juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island (Canada) and NW Washington (US). Length: about 129 km (80 miles). Width: about 24 km (15 miles)
structured programming — the design and coding of programs by a methodology (top-down) that successively breaks problems into smaller, nested subunits.
struggle for existence — the competition in nature among organisms of a population to maintain themselves in a given environment and to survive to reproduce others of their kind.
subornation of perjury — the offense of bribing or otherwise persuading another to commit perjury.
sun microsystems, inc. — (company) One of the first, and now biggest, US computer manufacturers. They also manufacture in Europe. The Sun-2 and 3 series of workstations and servers were based on the Motorola 680x0 family of microprocessors and the Sun-4 series on the SPARC. Sun also produce their own version of Unix, originally called SunOS and now Solaris. Their Network File System has become the de facto standard for sharing files between Unix systems. Sun own MySQL AB. Sun was bought by Oracle Corporation on 2009-04-20. Quarterly sales $1403M, profits $78M (Aug 1994). Address: 2550 Garcia Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043 -1100 USA.
supplementary question — a question asked in Parliament by an MP during Questions to the Prime Minister
swings and roundabouts — If you say that a situation is swings and roundabouts, you mean that there are as many gains as there are losses.
synchronic linguistics — the branch of linguistics that analyzes the structure of a language or languages as static, at a given point in their history
syntactic construction — a construction that has no bound forms among its immediate constituents. Compare morphologic construction.
the authorized version — an English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under James I
the houston ship canal — a canal linking Houston to the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
the ouachita mountains — a mountain range in the United States, located in W Arkansas, S E Oklahoma, and N E Texas
to be full to bursting — to be very full
to cast your mind back — If you cast your mind back to a time in the past, you think about what happened then.
to cast your net wider — If you cast your net wider, you look for or consider a greater variety of things.
to stick your neck out — If you stick your neck out, you bravely say or do something that might be criticized or might turn out to be wrong.
transformational rules — rules that specify in purely syntactic terms a method by which theorems may be derived from the axioms of a formal system

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