17-letter words containing sto
- a different story — You use a different story to refer to a situation, usually a bad one, which exists in one set of circumstances when you have mentioned that it does not exist in another set of circumstances.
- acoustoelectronic — denoting a device in which electronic signals are converted into acoustic waves, esp in delay lines, etc
- apostolic fathers — the Fathers of the early Church who immediately followed the Apostles
- aristolochiaceous — belonging to the Aristolochiaceae, the birthwort family of plants.
- auxiliary storage — secondary storage.
- barrel distortion — distortion of an image produced by an optical system that causes straight lines at image margins to bulge outwards
- bureau of customs — former name of the United States Customs Service.
- castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
- common storksbill — a geraniaceous plant, Erodium cicutarium, having pink or reddish-purple flowers and fruits with a beaklike process
- consignment store — a retail store that sells secondhand items on behalf of others and receives a percentage of the sales price.
- convenience store — A convenience store is a shop which sells mainly food and which is usually open until late at night.
- cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
- customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
- customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
- david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
- dehistoricization — The process or result of dehistoricizing.
- destination store — A destination store draws customers by selling unusual items, or having a friendly atmosphere, special pricing, and other desirable characteristics.
- elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
- fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
- gastroenterostomy — the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, especially, the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
- gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
- geomagnetic storm — magnetic storm.
- glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
- histopathological — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
- historical school — a school of economists that arose in Germany in the 19th century in reaction to the principles of the classical economists, and that maintained that the factors making up an economy are variable and develop out of social institutions.
- historiographical — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
- houndstooth check — a pattern of broken checks, used in woven material for jackets, shirts, etc.
- kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
- know when to stop — If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
- limestone lettuce — a variety of lettuce derived from Bibb lettuce.
- livingstone daisy — a gardener's name for various species of Mesembryanthemum, esp M. criniflorum, grown as garden annuals (though several are perennial) for their brightly coloured showy flowers: family Aizoaceae
- mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
- meiji restoration — revolution in Japanese life and government that occurred after the accession of Emperor Mutsuhito (1867), characterized by the downfall of the shogun and feudalism and the creation of a modern state
- mom and pop store — a small retail business, typically family-operated
- nonstoichiometric — (of a solid compound) having a composition in which the ratio of the atoms present is not a simple integer
- old red sandstone — a thick sequence of sedimentary rock (generally, but not always, red) deposited in Britain and NW Europe during the Devonian period
- one-stop shopping — the provision of everything that a customer or client might require in one place
- pastoral symphony — the Symphony No. 6 in F major (1807–08) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- pastoral theology — the branch of theology dealing with the responsibilities of members of the clergy to the people under their care.
- prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
- pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- put a stop to sth — If you put a stop to something that you do not like or approve of, you prevent it from happening or continuing.
- registered stocks — stocks officially registered to the name of the owner
- saint christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
- short short story — a very short piece of prose fiction, much more condensed than the average short story.
- stochastic matrix — a square matrix with positive entries totaling 1 in each row.
- stock certificate — a certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock in a corporation.
- stockbroker tudor — a modern style of architecture popular in affluent suburban areas that is imitative of Tudor architecture
- stolen generation — Aboriginal children removed from their families and placed in institutions or fostered by White families between 1910 and 1970
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