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18-letter words containing ne

  • sharp-shinned hawk — a North American hawk, Accipiter striatus, having extremely slender legs, a bluish-gray back, and a white, rusty-barred breast.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • shut one's eyes to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • sickle cell anemia — a chronic hereditary blood disease, occurring primarily among Africans or persons of African descent, in which abnormal hemoglobin causes red blood cells to become sickle-shaped and nonfunctional, characterized by enlarged spleen, chronic anemia, lethargy, weakness, joint pain, and blood clot formation.
  • sickle-cell anemia — Sickle-cell anemia is an inherited illness in which the red blood cells become curved, causing a number of health problems.
  • sickness insurance — a type of insurance which pays out if you become ill
  • simone de beauvoir — Simone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), (Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand) 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
  • sit on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • 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 pastern bone — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
  • social engineering — the application of the findings of social science to the solution of actual social problems.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • soldier of fortune — a person who independently seeks pleasure, wealth, etc., through adventurous exploits.
  • spread one's wings — to make full use of one's abilities
  • stand one's ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • stand-by generator — an electrical system which operates automatically in case the usual system malfunctions
  • stand/wait in line — When people stand in line or wait in line, they stand one behind the other in a line, waiting their turn for something.
  • stick one's bib in — to interfere
  • stick-to-itiveness — persistence, tenacity
  • strangeness number — a quantum number, designating the strangeness of an elementary particle, equivalent to the hypercharge minus the baryon number
  • stretch one's legs — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • swollen-headedness — the quality of being conceited
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • take one's chances — to accept the uncertain outcome as of a course of action
  • take to one's legs — to run away
  • tan someone's hide — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
  • tardive dyskinesia — a disorder characterized by restlessness and involuntary rolling of the tongue or twitching of the face, trunk, or limbs, usually occurring as a complication of long-term therapy with antipsychotic drugs.
  • tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
  • telephone exchange — a telecommunications facility to which subscribers' telephones connect, that switches calls among subscribers or to other exchanges for further routing.
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • telephone sex line — a telephone line operated by a phone-sex worker that offers phone sex to paying customers
  • television cabinet — a cabinet on which a television set is placed or in which it is encased
  • temporary hardness — hardness of water due to the presence of magnesium and calcium hydrogencarbonates, which can be precipitated as carbonates by boiling
  • terrestrial planet — inner planet.
  • tetrachloromethane — carbon tetrachloride.
  • the damage is done — If you say 'the damage is done', you mean that it is too late now to prevent the harmful effects of something that has already happened.
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • the heavens opened — it started pouring with rain
  • the kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
  • the nether regions — the genitals
  • the sunshine state — the nickname of the US state of Florida, which comes from its sunny climate
  • the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
  • thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
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