18-letter words containing ci
- social bookmarking — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- social engineering — the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.
- social environment — the environment developed by humans as contrasted with the natural environment; society as a whole, especially in its relation to the individual.
- societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
- society of friends — a Christian denomination, founded in England c. 1650 by George Fox, that has no formal creed, liturgy, or priesthood and rejects violence in human relations, esp. warfare
- sociopsychological — of, relating to, or characterized by interrelated social and psychological factors.
- sociotechnological — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and technological factors.
- special assessment — a tax levied by a local government on private property to pay the cost of local public improvements, as sidewalk construction or sewage disposal, that are of general benefit to the property taxed.
- special collection — a collection of materials segregated from a general library collection according to form, subject, age, condition, rarity, source, or value.
- special prosecutor — (formerly) an independent counsel.
- special relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
- specialist teacher — a teacher with expertise in working with children with special educational needs, such as dyslexia
- specific viscosity — a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid, expressed as the ratio of the absolute viscosity of the fluid to that of a reference fluid (usually water in the case of liquids)
- specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
- static electricity — a stationary electric charge built up on an insulating material.
- student councillor — a student who is a member of a council or body representing the interests of students at a school, university or college
- superciliary ridge — browridge.
- tale of two cities — a historical novel (1859) by Dickens.
- the dismal science — a name for economics coined by Thomas Carlyle
- the uncircumcision — the gentiles
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- thioantimonic acid — a hypothetical acid, H3SbS4, known only in the form of its salts
- 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
- threatened species — a species likely, in the near future, to become an endangered species within all or much of its range.
- triphosphoric acid — the hypothetical acid H 5 P 3 O 10 , known chiefly by its salts.
- two-tier financing — a form of lending in which the debt is divided into two separate parts, as in a first and second mortgage held by an individual on a single property
- under-depreciation — decrease in value due to wear and tear, decay, decline in price, etc.
- video conferencing — the holding of videoconferences.
- vitamin deficiency — a lack of a vitamin or vitamins needed for good health
- warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
- welwyn garden city — a town in SE England, in Hertfordshire: established (1920) as a planned industrial and residential community. Pop: 43 512 (2001)
- yeast nucleic acid — RNA.