20-letter words containing o, s, e, t

spontaneous abortion — miscarriage (def 1).
spontaneous recovery — the reappearance of a response after its extinction has been followed by a period of rest
spontaneous-abortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
spotted crane's-bill — the American wild geranium, Geranium maculatum.
spotted joe-pye weed — joe-pye weed (def 2).
square cross-section — If a kelly has a square cross-section, it has a surface area with four equal sides, when looked at as if has been sliced through.
square of opposition — a diagrammatic representation of the opposition of categorical propositions.
squatter sovereignty — (used contemptuously by its opponents) popular sovereignty (def 2).
squirrel's-foot fern — ball fern.
st. george's channel — a channel between Wales and Ireland, connecting the Irish Sea and the Atlantic. 100 miles (160 km) long; 50–90 miles (81–145 km) wide.
st. james-assiniboia — a city in SE Manitoba, in S central Canada: suburb of Winnipeg.
staff of aesculapius — a representation of a forked staff with an entwining serpent, used as a symbol of the medical profession and as the insignia of the American Medical Association and other medical organizations. Compare caduceus (def 2).
staff sergeant major — a noncommissioned officer equivalent in rank to a command sergeant major but having no command responsibility.
stained glass window — a window made of coloured glass, often showing religious pictures and usually seen in churches
standard book number — International Standard Book Number. Abbreviation: SBN.
state enrolled nurse — a nurse with training and examinations enabling him or her to perform many nursing services
state highway patrol — a state's road traffic police
states of the church — Papal States
stefan-boltzmann law — the law stating that the total energy radiated from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.
step into the breach — If you step into the breach, you do a job or task which someone else was supposed to do or has done in the past, because they are suddenly unable to do it.
step up to the plate — to move into batting position
stick one's neck out — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
stochastic terrorism — the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted: The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism.
stockholders' equity — the net assets of a corporation as owned by stockholders in capital stock, capital surplus, and undistributed earnings.
stoichiometric ratio — The stoichiometric ratio is the exact ratio between air and flammable gas or vapor at which complete combustion takes place.
stokes-adams disease — unconsciousness accompanying atrioventricular heart block, sometimes characterized by weakness, irregular pulse, and intermittent convulsive or nonconvulsive seizures.
stony-iron meteorite — a meteorite of roughly equal proportions of metallic iron and stony matter.
storage area network — (storage) (SAN) A high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disk or disks for storing data. A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. The server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data. Because stored data does not reside directly on any of a network's servers, server power is used for business applications, and network capacity is released to the end user.
stress concentration — A stress concentration in a solid is a place where there is a lot of stress, either because a force is applied in a particular area or there is a change in the cross-sectional area.
strike off the rolls — to expel from membership
string correspondent — stringer (def 6).
strong nuclear force — 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
structural isomerism — Chemistry. the relation of two or more compounds, radicals, or ions that are composed of the same kinds and numbers of atoms but differ from each other in structural arrangement (structural isomerism) as CH 3 OCH 3 and CH 3 CH 2 OH, or in the arrangement of their atoms in space and therefore in one or more properties. Compare optical isomerism, stereoisomerism.
subjective intension — the associations that an expression has for an individual; the intension he believes it to have
subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.
subscription edition — an edition of one or more volumes for which a number of prospective purchasers place orders, usually in advance of publication.
sufficient condition — a statement whose truth is sufficient to guarantee the truth of a given statement
sunday-go-to-meeting — most presentable; best: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
superior conjunction — the alignment of an inferior planet and the sun in which the planet is at the far side of the sun from the earth.
supersonic transport — a commercial jet airplane that can fly faster than the speed of sound. Abbreviation: SST.
surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
sweat one's guts out — to work very hard
switchboard operator — a person who operates an installation in a telephone exchange, office, hotel, etc, at which the interconnection of telephone lines is manually controlled
synchronized skating — the art or sport of teams of up to twenty skaters holding onto each other and moving in patterns in time to music
synoptic meteorology — a branch of meteorology analyzing data collected simultaneously over a wide region, for the purpose of weather forecasting.
synthetic philosophy — the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, intended as a synthesis of all the sciences.
system international — Système International d'Unités
systemic circulation — the circulatory system in general.
take into one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
take pity on someone — If you take pity on someone, you feel sorry for them and help them.

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