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  • screen capture — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
  • scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
  • seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • secure tenancy — the letting of a dwelling by a nonprivate landlord, usually a local council or housing association, under an agreement that allows security of tenure, subletting, improvements made to the property by the tenant without consequent rent increase, and the right to buy the dwelling at a discount after three years' occupancy
  • securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • silent auction — an auction at which previously submitted written bids of prospective buyers are opened and compared, with each item being sold to the highest bidder.
  • slantendicular — slanting (rather than perpendicular or horizontal)
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
  • southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
  • staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
  • staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
  • state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
  • station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subassociation — an association that forms part of a larger association
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
  • tax consultant — a person who advises other people and companies on tax affairs, esp on legal ways of paying less tax
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • trade discount — a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.
  • trades council — (in Britain) an association of the different trade unions in one town or area
  • transcaucasian — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
  • transcutaneous — by way of or through the skin.
  • transductional — of or relating to transduction
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
  • turn the scale — Often, scales. a balance or any of various other instruments or devices for weighing: We gave the parents a baby scale. The butcher placed the meat on the scales.
  • ultra-distance — covering a distance in excess of 30 miles, often as part of a longer race or competition
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultraprecision — extreme accuracy or precision
  • un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unchauvinistic — not chauvinistic
  • unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
  • uncollectables — things that are not collectable
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
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