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21-letter words containing s, a, n, t, e, r

  • gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
  • gender disappointment — a feeling of depression or anxiety experienced by an expectant parent when the gender of the baby does not match his or her preference
  • general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
  • gentleman's agreement — unwritten rule or agreement
  • gentlemen's agreement — an agreement that, although unenforceable at law, is binding as a matter of personal honor.
  • get in someone's hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
  • gideons international — an interdenominational lay society organized in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
  • give sb a green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
  • give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
  • goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
  • got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
  • great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
  • great st bernard pass — St. Bernard, Great.
  • greater sunda islands — a group of islands in the W Malay Archipelago, forming the larger part of the Sunda Islands: consists of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi
  • greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
  • guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm)   A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
  • have a strong stomach — not to be prone to nausea
  • have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
  • help a person on with — to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
  • henry steele commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
  • highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
  • horizontal stabilizer — the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
  • horns and halo effect — a tendency to allow one's judgement of another person, esp in a job interview, to be unduly influenced by an unfavourable (horns) or favourable (halo) first impression based on appearances
  • hysterosalpingography — (medicine) X-ray examination of the uterus and oviducts following injection of a radiopaque substance.
  • identical proposition — a proposition in which the subject and predicate have the same meaning, as, “That which is mortal is not immortal.”.
  • identification papers — documents that serve to establish someone's identity
  • in (or out of) phase — in (or not in) a state of exactly parallel movements, oscillations, etc.; in (or not in) synchronization
  • in a state of undress — If someone is in a state of undress, they do not have all their clothes on.
  • in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
  • in more ways than one — You say in more ways than one to indicate that what you have said is intended to have more than one meaning.
  • in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
  • in the first instance — You say in the first instance to mention something that is the first step in a series of actions.
  • indicated horse-power — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
  • indigenous australian — another name for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • indo-australian plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising India and the Australian continent and adjacent suboceanic basins (the Tasman, South Australian, Mid-Indian, Cocos, and Australian basins); separated from the Eurasian Plate by the Java Trench, from the Pacific Plate by the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, and from the African Plate by a series of mid-ocean ridges (the Carlsberg, Mid-Indian, and Southeast Indian ridges).
  • industrial revolution — (sometimes initial capital letters) the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
  • infectious ectromelia — ectromelia (def 2).
  • inflationary universe — a version of the big bang theory in which the universe underwent very rapid growth during the first fraction of a second before it settled down to its current rate of expansion.
  • information scientist — someone who works in information science
  • inner spring mattress — a mattress with a system of wire coils or springs inside for buoyancy or comfort purposes
  • instrumental learning — a method of training in which the reinforcement is made contingent on the occurrence of the response
  • insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
  • insurance certificate — a certificate that shows that a person or organization has insurance
  • insurance underwriter — sb who assesses eligibility for insurance policies
  • integer specbaseratio — SPECbase_int92
  • interest-rate futures — financial futures based on projected movements of interest rates
  • interpersonal therapy — a type of psychotherapy that focuses on conflicts in one's personal relationships.
  • intersubstitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • intracoastal waterway — a mostly inland water route, partly natural and partly artificial, extending 1550 miles (2500 km) along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Florida Bay (Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway) and 1116 miles (1800 km) along the Gulf coast from Carrabelle, Fla., to Brownsville, Tex. (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) constructed to protect small craft from the hazards of the open sea.
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