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21-letter words containing s, n

  • financial times index — one of the indexes of share prices produced by the Financial Times, especially the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index
  • finite state automata — Finite State Machine
  • first baron ashburton — Alexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
  • first consonant shift — the consonant shift described by Grimm's law, which distinguishes Germanic languages from other Indo-European languages.
  • first-round financing — First round financing is the first time a new company raises money from investors.
  • flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)
  • food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
  • food standards agency — the full form of FDA
  • foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
  • for someone's benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • for the benefit of sb — If you say that someone is doing something for the benefit of a particular person, you mean that they are doing it for that person.
  • foreground processing — a type of processing that supports interaction between interactive and batch operations
  • foreign correspondent — a correspondent, as for a periodical, assigned to send back articles and news dispatches from a foreign country for publication.
  • forensic anthropology — the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
  • fort lesley j. mcnair — a military reservation in SW Washington, D.C., on the Potomac River, SW of the Capitol.
  • framing specification — A specification of the "protocol bits" that surround the "data bits" on a communications channel to allow the data to be "framed" into chunks, like start and stop bits in EIA-232. It allows a receiver to synchronize at points along the data stream.
  • franco-belgian system — French system.
  • fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
  • free alongside vessel — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
  • freedom of expression — the unrestrained right to voice ideas, opinions, etc
  • french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
  • frequent wash shampoo — a shampoo whose mildness allows it to be used frequently
  • friends with benefits — friends who have a casual sexual relationship with no expectation of commitment
  • from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
  • fuming sulphuric acid — a mixture of pyrosulphuric acid, H2S2O7, and other condensed acids, made by dissolving sulphur trioxide in concentrated sulphuric acid
  • game of cat and mouse — In a fight or contest, if one person plays cat and mouse, or a game of cat and mouse, with the other, the first person tries to confuse or deceive the second in order to defeat them.
  • gas analysis recorder — A gas analysis recorder is a device which samples, records, and analyses gas.
  • gas blanketed storage — Gas blanketed storage is the use of gas to fill empty space in a storage tank.
  • gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
  • gaussian distribution — normal distribution
  • 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
  • gentleman's gentleman — a valet.
  • gentlemen's agreement — an agreement that, although unenforceable at law, is binding as a matter of personal honor.
  • geometric progression — a sequence of terms in which the ratio between any two successive terms is the same, as the progression 1, 3, 9, 27, 81 or 144, 12, 1, 1/12, 1/144.
  • get down on something — to procure something, esp in advance of needs or in anticipation of someone else
  • 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 into the swing of — If you get into the swing of something, you become very involved in it and enjoy what you are doing.
  • get on someone's case — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
  • get on someone's wick — to cause irritation to a person
  • get on the scoresheet — In football, rugby, and some other sports, if a player gets on the scoresheet, he or she scores one or more goals, tries, or points.
  • get one's breath back — When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.
  • get/have the goods on — If you get the goods or have the goods on someone, you have evidence that they have done something wrong or criminal.
  • gideons international — an interdenominational lay society organized in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
  • gird (up) one's loins — to get ready to do something difficult or strenuous
  • give place to someone — to make room for or be superseded by someone
  • 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.
  • give someone a leg up — to help someone to climb an obstacle by pushing upwards
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