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18-letter words containing i, n, s, t, u

  • standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
  • state of the union — A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • strontium monoxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • 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.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • 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
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
  • the mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the sunshine state — the nickname of the US state of Florida, which comes from its sunny climate
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • 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
  • thrift-institution — economical management; economy; frugality.
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
  • to cross your mind — If you say that an idea or possibility never crossed your mind, you mean that you did not think of it.
  • to gird your loins — If you gird your loins, you prepare to do something difficult or dangerous.
  • to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • transit instrument — Astronomy. meridian circle.
  • transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
  • tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
  • trustee investment — an investment in which trustees are authorized to invest money belonging to a trust fund
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
  • turn in on oneself — to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
  • ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • unconstitutionally — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
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