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18-letter words containing u, s, t, l, a, i

  • secular tertiaries — of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
  • securities analyst — an expert who advises on investment in securities such as stocks, shares and bonds
  • security clearance — access to top secret information
  • self-actualization — the achievement of one's full potential through creativity, independence, spontaneity, and a grasp of the real world.
  • 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-justification — the act or fact of justifying oneself, especially of offering excessive reasons, explanations, excuses, etc., for an act, thought, or the like.
  • 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.
  • simple enumeration — a procedure for arriving at empirical generalizations by haphazard accumulation of positive instances.
  • sit up like jackie — to sit bolt upright, esp cheekily
  • small claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
  • small outline dimm — (storage)   (SO-DIMM) A smaller kind of DIMM with 72 pins (supporting 32-bit transfers) or 144 pins (64-bit transfers). Regular DIMMs have 168 pins and support 64-bit transfers. Being roughly half the size of the regular DIMM, SO-DIMMs are often used in notebook computers.
  • small-claims court — a special court established to handle small claims or debts, usually without the services of lawyers.
  • sodium thiosulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 3 ⋅5H 2 O, used as a bleach and in photography as a fixing agent.
  • soft touch sealing — Soft touch sealing is a copolymer seal for a tank, with characteristics designed for softness, used instead of a metal seal to help avoid fire when sparks are generated.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
  • special prosecutor — (formerly) an independent counsel.
  • standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
  • status epilepticus — a condition in which repeated epileptic seizures occur without the patient gaining consciousness between them. If untreated for a prolonged period it can lead to long-term disability or death
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • 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.
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • super giant slalom — a slalom race in which the course is longer and has more widely spaced gates than in a giant slalom.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • 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.
  • temporal summation — the act or process of summing.
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • 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 south atlantic — the part of the Atlantic Ocean that lies to the south of the equator
  • the sun also rises — a novel (1926) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • to play favourites — to display favouritism
  • tristan und isolde — a music drama (composed, 1857–59; première, 1865) by Richard Wagner.
  • tristimulus values — three values that together are used to describe a colour and are the amounts of three reference colours that can be mixed to give the same visual sensation as the colour considered
  • ulcerative colitis — chronic ulceration in the large intestine, characterized by painful abdominal cramps and profuse diarrhea containing pus, blood, and mucus.
  • ultrasonic testing — the scanning of material with an ultrasonic beam, during which reflections from faults in the material can be detected: a powerful nondestructive test method
  • ultrasonic welding — the use of high-energy vibration of ultrasonic frequency to produce a weld between two components which are held in close contact
  • unconstitutionally — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
  • unenthusiastically — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • universal negative — a proposition of the form “No S is P.” Symbol: E, e.
  • universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
  • university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
  • venture capitalist — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
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