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18-letter words containing s, t, a, c

  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • store launch event — A store launch event is a special event, which publicizes the opening of a new store and at which discounts and free samples may be offered.
  • 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
  • stratigraphic trap — A stratigraphic trap is a rock formation that contains hydrocarbons and is sealed by other rock formations.
  • street certificate — a certificate showing ownership of a specified number of shares of stock: endorsed by the owner and guaranteed by a broker, it may be traded without formal transfer on the books of the corporation issuing the stock.
  • strong interaction — the interaction between gluons and between gluons and quarks that is responsible for the strong force.
  • structural formula — a chemical formula showing the linkage of the atoms in a molecule diagrammatically, as H–O–H.
  • structural geology — the branch of geology dealing with the structure and distribution of the rocks that make up the crust of the earth. Also called tectonics. Compare structure (def 7a).
  • study hall teacher — a teacher who supervises or helps students during a period of time or lesson used for studying
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • 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
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • super royal octavo — a book size, 63⁄4 by 101⁄4 inches
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • surface-to-surface — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from a base on the surface of the earth to a target also on the surface.
  • 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
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • sympathetic strike — sympathy strike.
  • 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.
  • symphony orchestra — a large orchestra composed of wind, string, and percussion instruments and organized to perform symphonic compositions.
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • take one's chances — to accept the uncertain outcome as of a course of action
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • tale of two cities — a historical novel (1859) by Dickens.
  • task control block — (architecture)   An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
  • teaching assistant — a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. Abbreviation: TA.
  • 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.
  • telecommunications — Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
  • television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
  • television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
  • tertiary structure — the way in which the helixes or beta structures of a polypeptide are folded or arranged into a three-dimensional configuration.
  • that's the ticket! — that's the correct or proper thing! that's right!
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the black and tans — a specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Féin
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the class struggle — the continual conflict between the capitalist and working classes for economic and political power
  • the coast is clear — If you say that the coast is clear, you mean that there is nobody around to see you or catch you.
  • the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
  • the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
  • the practicalities — the real facts or details of a situation, as opposed to its theoretical aspects
  • the scarlet letter — a novel (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • the south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
  • tick all the boxes — to satisfy all of the apparent requirements for success
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