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17-letter words containing an

  • shouting distance — hailing distance.
  • signed and sealed — If you say that an agreement is signed and sealed, or signed, sealed and delivered, you mean that it is absolutely definite because everyone involved has signed all the legal documents.
  • significance test — (in hypothesis testing) a test of whether the alternative hypothesis achieves the predetermined significance level in order to be accepted in preference to the null hypothesis
  • significant other — Sociology. a person, as a parent or peer, who has great influence on one's behavior and self-esteem.
  • silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
  • similar triangles — triangles that are similar due to the equality of corresponding angles and the proportional similarity of the corresponding sides
  • sino-japanese war — the war (1894–95) between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea and the Chinese cession to Japan of Formosa and the Pescadores.
  • situations vacant — Situations Vacant is the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised.
  • sixth commandment — “Thou shalt not kill”: sixth of the Ten Commandments.
  • sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
  • slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
  • social assistance — welfare program
  • sound effects man — a man who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
  • south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • south sea company — a British joint stock company that traded in South America in the 18th century. The South Sea Company took over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks, and a financial crash in 1720 (the South Sea Bubble)
  • south sea islands — the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania
  • southern triangle — the constellation Triangulum Australe.
  • span of attention — attention span.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
  • spark transmitter — a transmitting set that generates electromagnetic waves by the oscillatory discharge from a capacitor through an inductor and a spark gap.
  • spectrum analyser — an instrument that splits an input waveform into its frequency components, which are then displayed
  • spectrum analysis — the determination of the constitution or condition of bodies and substances by means of the spectra they produce.
  • spenserian sonnet — a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
  • spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
  • spinal anesthesia — interruption of conduction of nerve impulses by the injection of an anesthetic into the spinal canal that reduces sensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness.
  • spit in the ocean — a variety of poker in which four cards are dealt face down to each player and one card, forming the fifth for all hands, is dealt face up in the center of the table, the exposed card and others of its denomination being wild cards.
  • spitting distance — a short space or distance
  • spot announcement — a brief radio or television announcement, usually an advertisement, made by an individual station during or after a network program.
  • spotted sandpiper — a North American sandpiper, Actitis macularia, that has brownish-gray upper parts and white underparts, and is spotted with black in the summer.
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • square and rabbet — annulet (def 1).
  • squeegee merchant — a person who attempts to make money by squeegeeing the windscreens of cars that are stopped at traffic lights and then asking for payment
  • st. vitus's dance — St. Vitus's dance.
  • stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
  • stand your ground — relating to or denoting a legal principle or law that eliminates the duty to retreat by allowing, as a first response, self-defense by deadly force: We’re proud to represent Florida, the first stand your ground state.
  • stand-up comedian — performer: tells jokes
  • standard function — a subprogram provided by a translator that carries out a task, for example the computation of a mathematical function, such as sine, square root, etc
  • standing expenses — fixed or flat expenses or charges
  • stannous chloride — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, SnCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O, used chiefly as a reducing and tinning agent, and as a mordant in dyeing with cochineal.
  • stannous fluoride — a white, crystalline powder, SnF 2 , slightly soluble in water: used as a source of fluorine in the prevention of dental caries, especially as a toothpaste additive.
  • stars and stripes — US national flag
  • steamship company — a company which has a fleet of steamships
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • strait of otranto — a stretch of water between SE Italy and Albania, connecting the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea; of strategic importance during World War I
  • strange attractor — Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.
  • strange interlude — a play (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • stray capacitance — undesired capacitance in equipment, occurring between the wiring, between the wiring and the chassis, or between components and the chassis
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