15-letter words containing se
- a case in point — If you say that something is a case in point, you mean that it is a good example of something you have just mentioned.
- a false economy — If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
- absence of mind — distraction; forgetfulness
- absence seizure — petit mal.
- absent-mindedly — so lost in thought that one does not realize what one is doing, what is happening, etc.; preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings.
- absentee ballot — a ballot in which votes are cast in advance because voters are unable to go to the polling place
- absentee voting — voting in advance by voters who cannot get to the polling place on polling day
- accepting house — a financial institution that guarantees a bill of exchange, as a result of which it can be discounted on more favourable terms
- accrued expense — an expense incurred but not yet paid, as accrued interest on notes payable.
- actinide series — a series of 15 radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium
- actinium series — a radioactive decay series that starts with uranium-235 and ends with lead-207
- activity series — a table of metals, listed in the order of their ability to replace other metals while in solution
- acute bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
- admiralty house — the official residence of the Governor General of Australia, in Sydney
- alaska purchase — purchase of the territory of Alaska by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000. Compare Seward's Folly.
- algebra of sets — a nonempty collection of sets having the property that the union of two sets of the collection is a set of the collection and the complement of each set of the collection is a set in the collection.
- allende gossens — Salvador, 1908–73, Chilean political leader: president 1970–73.
- alpha-cellulose — a refined, insoluble form of cellulose derived from cotton or wood pulp, and used in manufacturing
- altar of repose — a pedestal or niche upon which the sacraments are preserved from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday.
- ambrose channel — a ship channel at the entrance to New York harbor, near Sandy Hook. 7½ miles (12 km) long.
- ambulance nurse — a nurse who works as part of an ambulance crew
- american cheese — a type of smooth hard white or yellow cheese similar to a mild Cheddar
- angle of repose — the maximum angle to the horizontal at which rocks, soil, etc, will remain without sliding
- annular eclipse — an eclipse of the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon
- anti-separatist — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- antiperistalses — Plural form of antiperistalsis.
- antisegregation — opposed to or acting against segregration
- antisentimental — (of a piece of art or literature) deliberately unsentimental
- antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
- apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
- apophthegmatise — to speak in apophthegms
- arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
- asiago (cheese) — a hard, dry, sharply flavored cheese originally of N Italy
- assemblypersons — Plural form of assemblyperson.
- asset-stripping — If a person or company is involved in asset-stripping, they buy companies cheaply, sell off their assets to make a profit, and then close the companies down.
- at your service — You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can.
- auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again
- aviator glasses — sunglasses that look like goggles
- backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
- bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
- base technology — (company) The company which developed and distributes Liana. E-mail: Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> (owner). Address: Base Technology, Attn: Jack Krupansky, 1500 Mass. Ave. NW #114 Washington, DC 2005, USA. 800-786-9505 Telephone: +1 800 876 9505.
- basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
- basses-pyrenees — former name of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
- béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
- beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
- bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
- beurre noisette — a sauce of butter cooked until golden or nut brown, sometimes flavored with capers, vinegar, herbs, etc.
- binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
- biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
- bits per second — (communications, unit) (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
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