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- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
- stratocumulus — a cloud of a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- stratovolcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- strip cartoon — A strip cartoon is the same as a comic strip.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- structuration — the act of giving structure to something
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- subcoriaceous — almost leathery
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sugar orchard — sugarbush (def 2).
- supercautious — very or extremely cautious
- supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- suspercollate — to hang
- tailor's-tack — one of a series of loose looped stitches used to transfer markings for seams, darts, etc, from a paper pattern to material
- tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
- tautochronous — having the character of a tautochrone
- tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- thoracenteses — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thoracentesis — insertion of a hollow needle or similar instrument into the pleural cavity of the chest in order to drain pleural fluid.
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner