18-letter words containing u, n, r, e, t, a
- self-instructional — pertaining to or constituting learning materials and conditions arranged so that students can proceed to learn on their own with little or no supervision.
- self-preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
- self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- sexual intercourse — genital contact, especially the insertion of the penis into the vagina followed by orgasm; coitus; copulation.
- sexual orientation — one's natural preference in sexual partners; predilection for homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality.
- shugart technology — Seagate Technology
- shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
- simple enumeration — a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
- ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
- sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
- sound and the fury — a novel (1929) by William Faulkner.
- sound spectrograph — an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.
- southern cameroons — German Kamerun. a region in W Africa: a German protectorate 1884–1919; divided in 1919 into British and French mandates.
- southern rhodesian — a former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe (def 1).
- specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
- stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- standard schnauzer — schnauzer.
- 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.
- strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
- strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
- stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
- 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
- sun-dried tomatoes — tomatoes that have been dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
- super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
- supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
- take out insurance — take out insurance against something
- teacher evaluation — the process of vetting teachers to maintain teaching standards
- temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
- tertiary education — education, following secondary education at a school, at a college or university
- testamentary trust — a trust set up under the terms of a will.
- the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
- the general public — the people in a society; people in general
- the hunger marches — a number of processions by unemployed workers in the 1930s to protest against unemployment and deprivation
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
- there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
- third man argument — (in the philosophy of Aristotle) the argument against the existence of Platonic Forms that since the Form of Man is itself a perfect man, a further form (the "third" man) would be required to explain this, and so ad infinitum
- to bare one's soul — If you bare your soul, you tell someone your most secret thoughts and feelings.
- to be above ground — to be alive
- to open your heart — If you open your heart or pour out your heart to someone, you tell them your most private thoughts and feelings.
- to put years on sb — if you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older
- to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
- tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- transit instrument — Astronomy. meridian circle.
- trente et quarante — rouge et noir.
- tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.