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18-letter words containing s, c, r, i, n, e

  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
  • social engineering — the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.
  • social environment — the environment developed by humans as contrasted with the natural environment; society as a whole, especially in its relation to the individual.
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • society of friends — a Christian denomination, founded in England c. 1650 by George Fox, that has no formal creed, liturgy, or priesthood and rejects violence in human relations, esp. warfare
  • sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
  • solvent extraction — Solvent extraction is the separation of a particular substance from a mixture by dissolving that substance in a solvent that will dissolve it, but which will not dissolve any other substance in the mixture.
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • speech recognition — Computers. the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
  • speech synthesizer — device that imitates human voice
  • sperry corporation — (company)   The company which merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation. Divisions included Sperry Univac, Sperry Flight Systems, and others. Some of these were sold off after the merger.
  • spherical triangle — a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • st. lawrence river — a river in SE Canada, flowing NE from Lake Ontario, forming part of the boundary between New York and Ontario, and emptying into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 760 miles (1225 km) long.
  • stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
  • steering committee — a committee, especially of a deliberative or legislative body, charged with preparing the agenda of a session.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • sulfuric anhydride — sulfur trioxide.
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • superior vena cava — See under vena cava.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • surgical appliance — a specialized device used by somebody to relieve a particular medical condition
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
  • swarm intelligence — the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • technical reserves — Technical reserves are amounts of money set aside to pay for underwriting liabilities.
  • technical sergeant — a noncommissioned officer ranking below a master sergeant and above a staff sergeant.
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thirty-second note — a note having 1/32 of the time value of a whole note; demi-semiquaver.
  • thirty-second rest — a rest equal in value to a thirty-second note.
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
  • to cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
  • to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
  • to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
  • translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
  • transrectification — rectification occurring in one circuit as a result of the application of an alternating voltage to another circuit.
  • transverse section — cross section (def 1).
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