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21-letter words containing s, t, a, i, c, l

  • special correspondent — a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone
  • special court-martial — a court-martial established to try violations of military law less serious than those tried by a general court-martial but more serious than those tried by a summary court-martial.
  • spherical coordinates — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
  • spicebush swallowtail — a swallowtail butterfly, Papilio troilus, having a dark body with yellow spots on the forewings and greenish hind wings.
  • splice the main brace — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
  • split-screen facility — a facility allowing different scenes to be shown on screen at the same time
  • stabilization-process — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • stained glass ceiling — a situation in a church organization in which promotion for a female member of the clergy appears to be possible, but discrimination prevents it
  • statistical inference — the theory, methods, and practice of forming judgments about the parameters of a population, usually on the basis of random sampling
  • statistical mechanics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.
  • statutory declaration — a declaration made under statutory authority before a justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths which may in certain cases be substituted for a statement on oath
  • stock list department — (in an American stock exchange) the department dealing with monitoring compliance with its listing requirements and rules
  • stop loss reinsurance — Stop loss reinsurance is a form of reinsurance under which the reinsurer pays the cedant's losses in any year over a particular percentage of the earned premium.
  • subliminal perception — perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness
  • subsistence allowance — money given in advance to a new soldier, employee, etc., to buy food, clothing, and pay for other necessities while awaiting a first pay.
  • summary court-martial — a court-martial composed of one commissioned officer, authorized to try minor offenses against military law.
  • supergranulation cell — one of a number of large convection cells in the photosphere and chromosphere of the sun, each having a diameter of 10,000–20,000 miles (16,000–32,000 km) and lasting longer than a day.
  • surface of revolution — a surface formed by revolving a plane curve about a given line.
  • tartarian honeysuckle — an Asian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, having fragrant, white to pink flowers.
  • terrestrial telescope — a refracting telescope having inverting lenses or an eyepiece that presents an erect image.
  • tetrabromofluorescein — eosin (def 1).
  • the central provinces — the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  • the early renaissance — the period from about 1400 to 1500 in European, esp Italian, painting, sculpture, and architecture, when naturalistic styles and humanist theories were evolved from the study of classical sources, notably by Donatello, Masaccio, and Alberti
  • the flickertail state — a name for the state of North Dakota
  • theoretical physicist — a scientist who studies theoretical physics
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
  • to be a hospital case — if you say that someone or something is a hospital case, you mean that they need urgent help because they are doing very badly
  • to play second fiddle — If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.
  • transactinide element — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
  • tubercular meningitis — an infection of the membranes of the central nervous system caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis; features can include fever, headache, and coma
  • university of iceland — (body, education)   The Home of Fjolnir.
  • vacation bible school — a religious school conducted by some churches during the summer for students on vacation.
  • voice-stress analyzer — a machine purported to detect stress in a human voice and to ascertain a person's truthfulness.
  • voluntary association — a group of individuals joined together on the basis of mutual interest or common objectives, especially a business group that is not organized or constituted as a legal entity.
  • volunteers of america — a religious reform and relief organization, similar to the Salvation Army, founded in New York City in 1896 by Ballington Booth, son of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. Abbreviation: VOA.
  • warm silence software — A small company run by(?) Robin Watts, producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • west university place — a city in SE Texas.
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