ceiling
noun
the overhead interior surface of a room.
subceiling
-
a word derived from
ceiling.
Example Sentences
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Within that subceiling, a way had to be found of restricting the most dangerous component in the Soviet arsenal, MIRVed land-based missiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somehow the Vladivostok subceiling of 1,320 multiple-warhead weapons, which the Russians considered sacrosanct, had to be preserved.
From Time Magazine Archive
They include a Soviet offer to lower the "subceiling" limiting the number of warheads on land-based strategic missiles, which would bring the Soviet proposal closer to that of the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a subceiling would make it all the more important that the U.S. be confident its spy satellites could keep an accurate count as the Soviets MIRVed more and more of their ICBMS.
From Time Magazine Archive
The grade would have been an A.* Gromyko accepted the American position on D-and-P as well as the U.S. proposal for a lower total ceiling and for new limits within the 1,320 subceiling.
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