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17-letter words containing o, s, t, e, n, r

  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
  • slenderness ratio — aspect ratio (def 4a).
  • slenderness-ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the span of an airfoil to its mean chord.
  • slip-joint pliers — pliers having a sliding joint, permitting the span of the jaws to be adjusted.
  • social enterprise — a business organization that works to benefit society as a whole
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • socratic elenchus — the drawing out of the consequences of a position in order to show them to be contrary to some accepted position
  • sodium propionate — a transparent, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 3 H 5 NaO 2 , used in foodstuffs to prevent mold growth, and in medicine as a fungicide.
  • software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
  • soil conservation — any of various methods to achieve the maximum utilization of the land and preserve its resources through such controls as crop rotation, prevention of soil erosion, etc.
  • solicitor general — a law officer who maintains the rights of the state in suits affecting the public interest, next in rank to the attorney general.
  • 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 farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • southern rhodesia — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
  • southern sporades — a group of Greek islands in the Aegean, including the Dodecanese, lying off the SW coast of Turkey
  • southern studfish — See under studfish.
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • speech correction — the reeducation of speech habits that deviate from accepted speech standards.
  • speed restriction — the maximum speed allowed for road vehicles, trains, or other vehicles
  • spenserian sonnet — a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
  • sperrin mountains — a mountain range in NW Northern Ireland
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • split personality — multiple personality.
  • spotted sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Actitis macularia, that has brownish-gray upper parts and white underparts, and is spotted with black in the summer.
  • sri international — (company)   One of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjuction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, they later became fully independent and were incorporated as a non-profit organisation under U.S. and California laws. SRI does research and development in many areas, independently and for hire. They produce and sell reports on the independent research. Address: Menlo Park, California, USA; Cambridge, UK.
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • 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.
  • stannous fluoride — a white, crystalline powder, SnF 2 , slightly soluble in water: used as a source of fluorine in the prevention of dental caries, especially as a toothpaste additive.
  • stationary engine — an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.
  • statutory meeting — company shareholders' discussion
  • statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • steering geometry — Steering geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a steering system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
  • stellar evolution — the sequence of changes that occurs in a star as it ages
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • stir one's stumps — to move or become active
  • stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • storm in a teacup — a violent fuss or disturbance over a trivial matter
  • strange attractor — Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • stress relaxation — Stress relaxation is a gradual reduction in stress with time at constant strain.
  • stretch limousine — a limousine that has been lengthened to provide extra seating accommodation and more legroom
  • stretching course — (in brickwork) a course of stretchers.
  • strut one's stuff — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
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