21-letter words containing ess
- public-address system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- reckless endangerment — a crime whereby a person behaves in a reckless manner which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person
- recompression chamber — hyperbaric chamber.
- short message service — (messaging) (SMS) A message service offered by the GSM digital mobile telephone system. Using SMS, a short alphanumeric message (160 alphanumeric characters) can be sent to a mobile phone to be displayed there, much like in an alphanumeric pager system. The message is buffered by the GSM network until the phone becomes active.
- shut-in pressure test — A shut-in pressure test is a pressure test which is carried out after the well has been closed off for a particular time.
- stabilization-process — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- the acting profession — actors considered as a group
- the assessment method — a way of providing evidence that students' knowledge and learning match the aims of a course
- the oldest profession — prostitution
- the press association — the national news agency for the United Kingdom and Ireland
- trades union congress — The Trades Union Congress in Britain is the same as the TUC.
- uniform business rate — a local tax in the UK paid by businesses, based on a local valuation of their premises and a rate fixed by central government that applies throughout the country
- voice-stress analyzer — a machine purported to detect stress in a human voice and to ascertain a person's truthfulness.
- wet collodion process — a photographic process, in common use in the mid-19th century, employing a glass photographic plate coated with iodized collodion and dipped in a silver nitrate solution immediately before use.