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26-letter words containing o, n, e, s

  • round peg in a square hole — a person in a position, situation, etc. for which he or she is unsuited or unqualified
  • sangre de cristo mountains — a mountain range in S Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Blanca Peak, 4364 m (14 317 ft)
  • sans peur et sans reproche — without fear and without reproach: said originally of the French knight, the Seigneur de Bayard.
  • santiago de los caballeros — a city in the N central Dominican Republic.
  • schroder-bernstein theorem — the theorem of set theory that if two sets are so related that each can be placed in one-to-one correspondence with a subset of the other, then the sets are equivalent.
  • scintillation spectrometer — a scintillation counter adapted for measuring the energy distribution of particles emitted in radioactive processes.
  • search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
  • senior chief petty officer — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a chief petty officer and below a master chief petty officer. Abbreviation: SCPO.
  • serotonin receptor agonist — A serotonin receptor agonist is any compound that activates serotonin receptors when serotonin is not present.
  • set someone's mind at rest — to reassure someone or settle someone's mind
  • seven wonders of the world — the seven structures considered by ancient and medieval scholars to be the most wondrous of the ancient world. The list varies, but generally consists of the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Phidias' statue of Zeus at Olympia, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos (or lighthouse) of Alexandria
  • show a clean pair of heels — to run off
  • simple algebraic extension — a simple extension in which the specified element is a root of an algebraic equation in the given field.
  • sixty-four-dollar question — the critical or basic question or problem: Whether the measure will get through Congress this session or not is the sixty-four-dollar question.
  • slip through one's fingers — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • software writer's language — (language)   (SWL) /swil/ An industrial strength dialect of Pascal that allowed multiple source code files, originally developed at Control Data Corporation (CDC) prior to 1973. Development continued at the Integrated Systems Laboratory. SWL was adopted by NCR as its corporate operating system and compiler implementation language (1978-1982+). The NCR SWL dialect was renamed NCRL (NCR Language) in 1981 and continued development [until ?].
  • solemn league and covenant — an agreement (1643) between the parliaments of Scotland and England permitting the promotion of Presbyterianism in Scotland, England, and Ireland.
  • song of the three children — a book of the Apocrypha, included as part of the third chapter of Daniel in the Douay Bible.
  • square peg in a round hole — If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are in a situation or doing something that does not suit them at all.
  • ssh file transfer protocol — (networking)   (SFTP) A version of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using an encrypted network connection provided by Secure Shell (SSH), usually SSH 2. The SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files, making it more like a remote file system protocol. SFTP clients can resume interrupted transfers, get directory listings and remove remote files. SFTP has largely replaced Secure Copy (SCP).
  • stamped addressed envelope — A stamped addressed envelope is an envelope with a stamp on it and your own name and address, which you send to someone so that something can be sent back to you. The abbreviation s.a.e. is also used.
  • stand in the way of sth/sb — If you stand in the way of something or stand in a person's way, you prevent that thing from happening or prevent that person from doing something.
  • state of the union address — an annual message to Congress in which the president reports on the state of the nation and outlines a legislative program: required by the Constitution (Article II, Section 3). Abbreviation: SOTU.
  • state of the union message — an annual message to Congress in which the president reports on the state of the nation and outlines a legislative program: required by the Constitution (Article II, Section 3). Abbreviation: SOTU.
  • statistical-thermodynamics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.
  • sth will take some beating — If you say that something will take some beating, you mean that it is very good and it is unlikely that anything better will be done or made.
  • stick to someone's fingers — to be stolen by someone
  • straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
  • string processing language — (language)   (SPRING)
  • strong nuclear interaction — an interaction between elementary particles responsible for the forces between nucleons in the nucleus. It operates at distances less than about 10–15 metres, and is about a hundred times more powerful than the electromagnetic interaction
  • subscriber identity module — (telecommunications, wireless)   (SIM or "SIM card") A component, usually in the form of a miniature smart-card, that is theoretically tamper-proof and is used to associate a mobile subscriber with a mobile network subscription. The SIM holds the subscriber's unique MSISDN along with secret information such as a private encryption key and encryption and digital signature algorithms. Most SIMs also contain non-volatile storage for network and device management, contact lists, text messages sent and received, logos and in some cases even small Java programs.
  • subset-equational language — (SEL) A declarative language for set processing by Bharat Jayaraman with subset and equational program clauses; pattern matching over sets (it supports efficient iteration over sets); annotations to say which functions distribute over union in which arguments (for point-wise/incremental computation over sets); defining transitive closures through circular constraints (implemented by mixed top-down/memoisation and bottom-up strategy); meta-programming and simple higher-order programming; modest user-interface including tracing. The SEL compiler, written in Quintus Prolog, generates WAM-like code, extended to deal with set-matching, memoisation, and the novel control structure of the language. The run-time system is written in C. E-mail: Bharat Jayaraman <[email protected]>.
  • suit sb down to the ground — If you say that something such as a job or piece of clothing suits someone down to the ground, you mean that it is completely suitable or right for them.
  • sweep someone off his feet — to inspire strong and immediate enthusiasm, love, etc. in someone
  • symbionese liberation army — a group of urban guerrillas, active in the early 1970s in the U.S.
  • system product interpreter — Restructured EXtended eXecutor
  • systematic desensitization — a treatment of phobias in which the patient while relaxed is exposed, often only in imagination, to progressively more frightening aspects of the phobia
  • take leave of one's senses — to go mad or become irrational
  • take someone's breath away — strike someone with awe; thrill
  • take someone's temperature — If you take someone's temperature you use an instrument called a thermometer to measure the temperature of their body in order to see if they are ill.
  • take someone's word for it — to accept or believe what someone says
  • take something for granted — If you take something for granted, you believe that it is true or accept it as normal without thinking about it.
  • take steps to do something — to undertake measures with a view to the attainment of some end
  • take the bull by the horns — the male of a bovine animal, especially of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction.
  • tennessee valley authority — TVA.
  • terminal access controller — (hardware, networking)   (TAC) A device which connects terminals to the Internet, usually using dial-up modem connections and the TACACS protocol.
  • the consumers' association — a British organization which assesses and reports on new products and defends consumers' rights
  • the other side of the coin — You use the other side of the coin to mention a different aspect of a situation.
  • the second epistle of john — an epistle attributed to the apostle John which warns against teachers who claim that Jesus Christ did not come to Earth in the flesh
  • the short end of the stick — the worst of a deal
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