14-letter words containing s, i, u
- stage business — business (def 10).
- standard issue — something, such as a rifle, included as standard with military equipment
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
- steel industry — production of steel
- stercoricolous — (of an organism) living in dung
- sterculiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sterculiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of plants that includes cacao and cola
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- stock solution — a concentrated chemical solution, diluted before using.
- stone mountain — a massive, dome-shaped granite outcrop in NW Georgia, near Atlanta: sculptures of Confederate heroes: 825 feet (252 meters) high.
- straight flush — a sequence of five consecutive cards of the same suit.
- straighten out — make straighter
- street justice — the punishment given by members of the public to people regarded as criminals or wrongdoers
- strepsipterous — belonging or pertaining to the order Strepsiptera, comprising minute insects that are closely related to the beetles, the twisted-winged male being free-living and the wingless female parasitic in various insect hosts.
- strike through — cross out
- string quartet — a musical composition, usually in three or four movements, for four stringed instruments, typically two violins, viola, and cello.
- string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- striped muscle — a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
- strontium unit — a unit expressing the concentration of strontium-90 in an organic medium, such as soil, milk, bone, etc, relative to the concentration of calcium in the same medium
- structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
- student driver — someone who is learning to drive
- studio complex — a building containing a room or rooms used to record television or radio programmes, make films, music, etc
- studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
- stuffed animal — soft toy
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- sub-treasuries — a subordinate or branch treasury.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subassociation — an association that forms part of a larger association
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subconsciouses — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
- subconsciously — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
- subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- subinsinuation — an indirect or incomplete insinuation
- subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectiveness — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- subjectivities — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
- submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
- subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
- subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
- subscribership — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subsecretariat — an administrative department that assists and is subordinate to a secretariat.