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22-letter words containing i, s

  • (dead) in one's tracks — abruptly, as from being stunned or otherwise rendered unable to proceed
  • a blessing in disguise — If you say that something is a blessing in disguise, you mean that it causes problems and difficulties at first but later you realize that it was the best thing that could have happened.
  • a bull in a china shop — You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy.
  • a frog in one's throat — phlegm on the vocal cords that affects one's speech
  • a lump in one's throat — a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
  • a nail in one's coffin — an experience or event that tends to shorten life or hasten the end of something
  • absolute configuration — the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups in a chemical compound about an asymmetric atom
  • absorption coefficient — a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, as light, as it passes through a given substance.
  • absorption dynamometer — a device for measuring the torque or power of an engine in a process in which the energy supplied to the device by the engine is absorbed.
  • abstract expressionism — a school of painting in New York in the 1940s that combined the spontaneity of expressionism with abstract forms in unpremeditated, apparently random, compositions
  • accident-free discount — An accident-free discount is a discount on insurance payments that is available to drivers who have no accidents where they are at fault over a particular period of time.
  • account representative — (job)   A person in a company who identifies new accounts, analyses customer needs, proposes business solutions, negotiates and oversees the implementation of new projects.
  • acoustic spectrography — a technique for analyzing sound by separating it into its component frequencies.
  • acquisition accounting — an accounting procedure in which the assets of a company that has recently been taken over are changed from the book value to the fair market value
  • adenosine triphosphate — ATP
  • advertisement hoarding — a large flat structure on which advertisements can be posted, especially at the roadside
  • african horse sickness — a fatal infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys, which is transmitted by insect vectors. It is caused by an arbovirus and is characterized by pulmonary or cardiac signs
  • against the run of sth — If something happens against the run of play or against the run of events, it is different from what is generally happening in a game or situation.
  • aggressive accountancy — the falsification of a company's accounts to give an unduly favourable impression of its financial position
  • agro-industrialization — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
  • alarums and excursions — a stage direction, esp. in Elizabethan drama, for a scene depicting a battle
  • ali muhammad of shiraz — (the Bab; Ali Muhammad of Shiraz) 1819–50, a Persian religious leader: founder of Bābī.
  • alternative hypothesis — the hypothesis that given data do not conform with a given null hypothesis: the null hypothesis is accepted only if its probability exceeds a predetermined significance level
  • american bible society — a society founded in New York City in 1816 to bring about worldwide dissemination of the Bible.
  • american shorthair cat — one of a breed of medium-sized, muscular shorthaired domestic cats with a broad head and a short, thick coat.
  • american sign language — a language consisting of manual signs and gestures, used as by deaf people in North America
  • american water spaniel — any of a breed of spaniel with a curly, reddish or dark-brown coat, used as a retriever, esp. of waterfowl
  • anankastic personality — a personality syndrome characterized by obsessional or compulsive traits.
  • anatolian shepherd dog — a large powerfully-built dog of a breed with a large head and a short dense cream or fawn coat, originally used for guarding sheep
  • andrew jackson downingAndrew Jackson, 1815–52, U.S. landscape architect.
  • androcles and the lion — a comedy (1913) by G. B. Shaw.
  • animal rights movement — a group of people who campaign for the rights of animals to be protected from exploitation and abuse by humans
  • ankylosing spondylitis — inflammation of the spine causing two or more vertebrae to become fused
  • antiestablishmentarian — a person who supports or advocates antiestablishmentarianism.
  • antisocial personality — a personality disorder, beginning early in life, characterized by chronic and continuous antisocial behavior in which the rights of others are violated, as by lying, stealing, or aggressive sexual behavior.
  • appointment in samarra — a novel (1934) by John O'Hara.
  • appointment television — television programmes that people set aside time to watch
  • approved social worker — (in England) a qualified social worker specially trained in mental-health work, who is approved by his employing local authority to apply for a mentally disordered person to be admitted to hospital and detained there, or to apply for the person to be received into the guardianship of the local authority
  • arithmetic progression — a sequence of numbers or quantities, each term of which differs from the succeeding term by a constant amount, such as 3,6,9,12
  • armed response vehicle — (in Britain) a police vehicle carrying armed officers who are trained to respond to incidents involving firearms
  • ars longa, vita brevis — art (is) long, life (is) short
  • arseniuretted hydrogen — arsine (def 1).
  • articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
  • artificial respiration — Artificial respiration is the forcing of air into the lungs of someone who has stopped breathing, usually by blowing through their mouth or nose, in order to keep them alive and to help them to start breathing again.
  • as broad as it is long — amounting to the same thing; without advantage either way
  • assertiveness training — training that encourages one to have more confidence and directness in claiming one's rights or putting forward one's views
  • astronomical telescope — any telescope designed and mounted for use in astronomy. Such telescopes usually form inverted images
  • atlantic standard time — the local time used in eastern Canada, four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
  • attachment of earnings — (in Britain) a court order requiring an employer to deduct amounts from an employee's wages to pay debts or honour financial obligations
  • attributed file system — (storage)   (AtFS) The basis of the Shape_VC toolkit. Cooperative work within projects is supported by a status model controlling visibility of version objects, locking, and "long transactions" for synchronising concurrent updates. The concept of object attributes provides a basis for storing management information with versions and passing this information between individual tools. This mechanism is useful for building integrated environments from a set of unrelated tools.

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