22-letter words containing s, e, t, l, m, n
- sales force automation — (business) (Sales Automation, SFA, SFFA, Sales & Field Force Automation) Software to support sales reps. The software gives sales representitives access to contacts, appointments and e-mail. It is likely to be integrated with Customer Relationship Management systems and Opportunity Management Systems.
- santiago de compostela — a city in and the capital of Chile, in the central part.
- scalable sampling rate — (compression, standard, algorithm) (SSR) See, e.g., MPEG-4 AAC SSR.
- selective transmission — a transmission in which the available forward and reverse gears may be engaged in any order, without passing progressively through the different changes of gear.
- semipalmated sandpiper — a common North American sandpiper, Calidris pusillus, having semipalmate feet.
- simple harmonic motion — vibratory motion in a system in which the restoring force is proportional to the displacement from equilibrium. Abbreviation: S.H.M., s.h.m.
- simultaneous broadcast — a programme, etc, broadcast simultaneously on radio and television
- simultaneous equations — a set of two or more equations, each containing two or more variables whose values can simultaneously satisfy both or all the equations in the set, the number of variables being equal to or less than the number of equations in the set.
- sir william blackstone — Sir William, 1723–80, English jurist and writer on law.
- sleeping accommodation — place where people can sleep
- slender-tailed meerkat — the animal Suricata suricata
- slip something over on — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- small business edition — Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
- social security number — A Social Security number is a nine digit number that is given to U.S. citizens and to people living in the U.S. You need it to get a job, collect Social Security benefits and receive some government services.
- solid dose formulation — A solid dose formation is a hard tablet made by compressing medicine in a powder form.
- speckle interferometry — a photographic technique for clarifying the telescopic images of a star by taking short exposures of the electronic images of the star's speckle pattern and extrapolating properties of the starlight to create a more accurate composite image.
- spherical trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry that deals with spherical triangles.
- st-pierre and miquelon — group of islands in the Atlantic, south of Newfoundland, constituting a political unit of France: includes the islands of St-Pierre (c. 10 sq mi, 26 sq km) & Miquelon & several islets: 93 sq mi (241 sq km); pop. 6,000
- statute of limitations — a statute defining the period within which legal action may be taken.
- student volunteer army — a students' voluntary organization that aims to undertake useful work in communities, founded in 2010 to help clear up after a damaging earthquake in Christchurch
- subliminal advertising — a form of advertising on film or television that employs subliminal images to influence the viewer unconsciously
- supplementary question — a question asked in Parliament by an MP during Questions to the Prime Minister
- talk someone's arm off — to talk to someone at great length or without pause
- tell it to the marines — of or relating to the sea; existing in or produced by the sea: marine vegetation.
- tell someone's fortune — position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune.
- the continental system — Napoleon's plan in 1806 to blockade Britain by excluding her ships from ports on the mainland of Europe
- the medical profession — the occupation of working as a doctor of medicine
- the time of one's life — a memorably enjoyable time
- thermal imaging system — equipment providing images of a target, or of a person or thing under examination
- through-the-lens meter — a light meter employing a sensor cell located behind the taking lens.
- to drop someone a line — If you drop someone a line, you write to them.
- to lead someone astray — If you are led astray by someone or something, you behave badly or foolishly because of them.
- to seal someone's fate — If something seals a person's or thing's fate, it makes it certain that they will fail or that something unpleasant will happen to them.
- toey as a roman sandal — very anxious
- total allergy syndrome — a condition in which a person suffers from a large number of symptoms that are claimed to be caused by allergies to various substances used or encountered in modern life
- transformational rules — rules that specify in purely syntactic terms a method by which theorems may be derived from the axioms of a formal system
- unconditioned stimulus — any stimulus evoking an unlearnt response, esp in the context of classical conditioning, in which the conditioned stimulus is followed by the unconditioned one
- unemployment insurance — a government program that provides a limited number of payments to eligible workers who are involuntarily unemployed.
- unilateral disarmament — disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament, carried out by one state on its own
- unitarian universalism — a North American liberal religious denomination in the Judeo-Christian heritage, formed in 1961 by the merger of the Unitarians, organized in 1825, and the Universalists, organized in 1793.
- united empire loyalist — any of the American colonists who settled in Canada during or after the War of American Independence because of loyalty to the British Crown
- valencia simple tasker — (operating system) (VSTa) A small microkernel based Unix-like operating system, taking ideas from QNX and Plan 9, available under GPL.
- video display terminal — Computers. a computer terminal consisting of a screen on which data or graphics can be displayed. Abbreviation: VDT.
- volume of distribution — A volume of distribution is the hypothetical volume of body fluid that would be required to dissolve the amount of drug needed to achieve the same concentration in the blood.
- voluntary manslaughter — the unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought but in mitigating circumstances
- wear out one's welcome — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- william's bon chrétien — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit
- with all the trimmings — if you say that something comes with all the trimmings, you mean that it has many extra things added to it to make it more special
- woman police constable — a policewoman of the lowest rank
- yosemite national park — a national park in E California. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).