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  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • straits of florida — a sea passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba, linking the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • stratigraphic trap — A stratigraphic trap is a rock formation that contains hydrocarbons and is sealed by other rock formations.
  • street certificate — a certificate showing ownership of a specified number of shares of stock: endorsed by the owner and guaranteed by a broker, it may be traded without formal transfer on the books of the corporation issuing the stock.
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • submaxillary gland — submandibular gland.
  • 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.
  • subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • 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.
  • superciliary ridge — browridge.
  • superior vena cava — See under vena cava.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • 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.
  • system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • take sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
  • take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
  • tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • terrestrial planet — inner planet.
  • territorial waters — law: nation's boundaries
  • tertiary structure — the way in which the helixes or beta structures of a polypeptide are folded or arranged into a three-dimensional configuration.
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • 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 practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
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