20-letter words containing m, a, n
- retinitis pigmentosa — degeneration of the retina manifested by night blindness and gradual loss of peripheral vision, eventually resulting in tunnel vision or total blindness.
- return from the dead — (jargon) To regain access to the net after a long absence. Compare person of no account.
- ride on shank's mare — to walk
- rocky mountain basic — (language) The BASIC language used by Hewlett Packard on their 680x0-based computers. Rocky Mountain Basic is good for interfaces to IEEE 488 controls and contains many mathematical and matrix functions. It has about 600 commands. Typical applications include automatic test stations.
- rocky mountain sheep — bighorn.
- romantic involvement — the condition of being in a romantic or sexual relationship
- root canal treatment — dental treatment
- rotations per minute — revolutions per minute
- royal leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- run off at the mouth — Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
- saint james's palace — a palace in London, England: the royal residence from the time of Henry VIII until the accession of Victoria.
- saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
- saint mary magdalene — a woman of Magdala (ˈmæɡdələ ) in Galilee whom Jesus cured of evil spirits (Luke 8:2) and who is often identified with the sinful woman of Luke 7:36–50. In Christian tradition she is usually taken to have been a prostitute. Feast day: July 22
- saint thomas aquinas — Saint, Aquinas, Saint Thomas.
- salmonella poisoning — an illness caused by ingestion of a salmonella bacterium
- save someone's bacon — to help someone to escape from danger
- saxe-weimar-eisenach — a former grand duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scientific socialism — Marxist socialism
- scottish nationalism — a political ideology advocating the independence of Scotland
- seating arrangements — the seating plan for a formal occasion
- second law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- secure accommodation — an institution where young offenders are kept in custody
- self-belaying system — (in climbing) equipment used to pay out rope as required and thus enable a climber to self-belay
- send someone packing — to dismiss or get rid of (someone) peremptorily
- senior aircraftwoman — a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army, though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
- serra da mantiqueira — a mountain range in SE Brazil, running parallel to the coast. Highest point, 9140 feet (2785 meters).
- shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
- shear transformation — a map of a coordinate space in which one coordinate is held fixed and the other coordinate or coordinates are shifted.
- skating championship — a competition for ice-skating
- snow-on-the-mountain — a North American euphorbiaceous plant, Euphorbia marginata, having white-edged leaves and showy white bracts surrounding small flowers
- snows of kilimanjaro — a short story (1936) by Ernest Hemingway.
- societal development — the formation and transformation of social life, customs, institutions, etc.
- sodium meta-arsenite — sodium arsenite.
- solitary confinement — the confinement of a prisoner in a cell or other place in which he or she is completely isolated from others.
- some hope/not a hope — If you say 'Some hope', or 'Not a hope', you think there is no possibility that something will happen, although you may want it to happen.
- someone's last stand — You can describe someone's final attempt to defend themselves before they are defeated as their last stand.
- south american plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the continent of South America and several ocean basins and bounded on the north by the Caribbean Plate, on the east by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on the west by a submarine trench that borders the western coast of the continent, and on the south by the Antarctic Plate.
- south temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
- space-time continuum — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
- spanish-american war — the war between the U.S. and Spain in 1898.
- specific performance — (especially in the sale of land) literal compliance with one's contractual promises pursuant to a judicial mandate.
- splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
- st. james-assiniboia — a city in SE Manitoba, in S central Canada: suburb of Winnipeg.
- st.-germain-des-pres — an area in Paris, on the Left Bank.
- staff sergeant major — a noncommissioned officer equivalent in rank to a command sergeant major but having no command responsibility.
- stallman, richard m. — Richard Stallman
- standard book number — International Standard Book Number. Abbreviation: SBN.
- standstill agreement — law: between company and bidder
- stefan-boltzmann law — the law stating that the total energy radiated from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.
- subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.