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19-letter words containing i, n, t, e, s, f

  • sheet flood erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • siberian forest cat — a breed of powerfully-built long-haired cat, typically tabby with a white ruff and white paws
  • sign of aggregation — any of the signs used to indicate grouping in an algebraic expression: vinculum, bar, or raised horizontal line, ; a pair of parentheses, (a + b); a pair of brackets, [ a + b ]; or a pair of braces, { a + b }.
  • significant figures — the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
  • single life annuity — A single life annuity is an annuity where only one life is covered.
  • solid of revolution — a three-dimensional figure formed by revolving a plane area about a given axis.
  • son-of-a-bitch stew — (in the Old West) a stew often prepared by chuck-wagon cooks for working cowboys, containing tripe and often also the heart, liver, brains, kidney, etc., of a slaughtered steer.
  • south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
  • soviet of the union — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
  • specific resistance — resistivity (def 2).
  • specific-resistance — the power or property of resistance.
  • specular reflection — Specular reflection is reflection of heat or light in which the angles of different parts of the surface are important.
  • speculative fiction — a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
  • splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
  • spread oneself thin — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
  • staff-student ratio — the ratio of teachers to pupils or students in a school, college, or university
  • stanford university — (education)   A University in the city of Palo Alto, California, noted for work in computing, especially artificial intelligence. See SAIL.
  • stanford-binet test — a revised version of the Binet-Simon scale, prepared at Stanford University for use in the U.S.
  • store refurbishment — Store refurbishment happens when a store needs to be redecorated, modernized or the layout changed. The store will often be closed to customers during this time.
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • strike a false note — to behave inappropriately
  • subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
  • superannuation fund — a fund used for paying pensions
  • switchblade (knife) — a large jackknife that snaps open when a release button on the handle is pressed
  • take one's mind off — to stop one from thinking about; turn one's attention from
  • taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • term life insurance — life insurance for which premiums are paid over a limited time and that covers a specific term, the face value payable only if death occurs within that term.
  • the best of friends — If two people are the best of friends, they are close friends, especially when they have had a disagreement or fight in the past.
  • the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
  • the finishing touch — If you add the finishing touches to something, you add or do the last things that are necessary to complete it.
  • the first amendment — in the US the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
  • the roaring forties — the areas of ocean between 40° and 50° latitude in the S Hemisphere, noted for gale-force winds
  • theory of equations — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods of finding the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
  • to one's fingertips — entirely; altogether
  • to sit on the fence — If you sit on the fence, you avoid supporting a particular side in a discussion or argument.
  • to the exclusion of — If you do one thing to the exclusion of something else, you only do the first thing and do not do the second thing at all.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • transesterification — a reaction between an ester of one alcohol and a second alcohol to form an ester of the second alcohol and an alcohol from the original ester, as that of methyl acetate and ethyl alcohol to form ethyl acetate and methyl alcohol; interesterification.
  • transformer station — a station of an electricity generation, transmission and distribution system where voltage is transformed from high to low or the reverse using transformers
  • transitional relief — a form of tax relief, designed to smooth large changes in liability, which operates by restricting the proportion by which liability may change per year, both upwards and downwards
  • translation of axes — the process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes, parallel to the first, used to write equations of curves not centered about the origin.
  • unit of measurement — physical quantity
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
  • white-fronted goose — a grayish-brown wild goose, Anser albifrons, of Eurasia and western North America, having a white patch on the front of the face.
  • whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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