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

  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • special prosecutor — (formerly) an independent counsel.
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • spectrofluorimeter — an instrument in which the spectrum of secondarily emitted fluorescent light is used to identify chemical compounds.
  • squinting modifier — a word or phrase that can modify either the words that precede it or those that follow, as frequently in the sentence Studying frequently is tedious.
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • standoff insulator — a type of insulator that supports an electrical conductor at a distance from other elements or surfaces.
  • state of the union — A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.
  • status asthmaticus — a severe attack of asthma in which the patient may die from respiratory failure if not treated with inhaled oxygen or other appropriate measures
  • 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
  • statutory sick pay — the pay an employee is legally entitled to when sick
  • stirling's formula — a relation that approximates the value of n factorial (n!), expressed as .
  • strike an attitude — to assume a posture or pose, often an affected or theatrical one
  • strontium monoxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
  • 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.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • sugarloaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • 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.
  • super middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 168 pounds (75.6 kg), between middleweight and light heavyweight.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supporting actress — an actress playing a supporting role
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • sustaining program — a radio or television program without a commercial sponsor.
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • 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.
  • tertiary structure — the way in which the helixes or beta structures of a polypeptide are folded or arranged into a three-dimensional configuration.
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the hotel industry — the branch of the services industry which provides hotels
  • 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 mountain state — a nickname referring to West Virginia
  • the movie industry — the industry that makes entertainment films or movies
  • 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 sunshine state — the nickname of the US state of Florida, which comes from its sunny climate
  • the uncircumcision — the gentiles
  • the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • therese de lisieux — Saint (Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin"the Little Flower") 1873–97, French Carmelite nun.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
  • thioarsenious acid — any of a group of hypothetical acids, H3AsS3, HAsS2, and H4As2S5, known only in the forms of their salts
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
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