18-letter words containing t, u, m, e, s, c
- spectrofluorometer — an instrument in which the spectrum of secondarily emitted fluorescent light is used to identify chemical compounds.
- squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
- subatomic particle — physics:
- subject complement — a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy.
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
- 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.
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
- to close your mind — If you close your mind to something, you deliberately do not think about it or pay attention to it.
- to come unstitched — to go wrong or awry
- to cut the mustard — If someone does not cut the mustard, their work or their performance is not as good as it should be or as good as it is expected to be.
- under-compensation — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.