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17-letter words containing n, o, a, c, u

  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • scan-in, scan-out — scan design
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • second lieutenant — an Army, Air Force, or Marine officer of the lowest commissioned rank. Compare ensign (def 4).
  • secondary product — a product that is not the main product of an industry; a by-product
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • self-purification — a natural process of purifying, as the ability of a body of water to rid itself of pollutants.
  • self-renunciation — renunciation of one's own will, interests, etc.
  • senatus consultum — a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
  • shirt-tail cousin — a distant cousin
  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • situations vacant — Situations Vacant is the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised.
  • social accounting — the analysis of the economy by sectors leading to the calculation and publication of economic statistics, such as gross national product and national income
  • socially included — benefiting from social inclusion
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • sound effects man — a man who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
  • sound spectrogram — a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds.
  • south sea company — a British joint stock company that traded in South America in the 18th century. The South Sea Company took over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks, and a financial crash in 1720 (the South Sea Bubble)
  • special education — education that is modified or particularized for those with singular needs, as disabled or maladjusted people, slow learners, or gifted children.
  • spot announcement — a brief radio or television announcement, usually an advertisement, made by an individual station during or after a network program.
  • stand-up comedian — performer: tells jokes
  • standard function — a subprogram provided by a translator that carries out a task, for example the computation of a mathematical function, such as sine, square root, etc
  • stannous chloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, SnCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly as a reducing and tinning agent, and as a mordant in dyeing with cochineal.
  • stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
  • storm in a teacup — a violent fuss or disturbance over a trivial matter
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • sufficient reason — the principle that nothing happens by pure chance, but that an explanation must always be available
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
  • supercolumniation — the placing of one order of columns above another.
  • support mechanism — any formal system or method of providing support or assistance
  • supreme commander — the military officer commanding all allied forces in a theater of war.
  • surface condenser — a device condensing steam or vapor by passing it over a cool surface.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • taconic mountains — a mountain range in SE New York, W Massachusetts, and SW Vermont, a highly eroded part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak, Mount Equinox, in Vermont 3816 feet (1163 meters).
  • take into account — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • take into custody — to arrest
  • teacher education — training to become a teacher, usually at an institution of higher education
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • telecommunicating — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telecommunication — 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.
  • temporary account — A temporary account is an account which is closed out at the end of the year.
  • tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
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