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19-letter words containing a, c, d

  • saccharolactic acid — mucic acid.
  • sackcloth and ashes — a public display of extreme grief, remorse, or repentance
  • saint patrick's day — March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
  • saint vitus's dance — chorea (def 2).
  • sale and lease back — leaseback.
  • samuel de champlain — Samuel de [sam-yoo-uh l duh;; French sa-my-el duh] /ˈsæm yu əl də;; French sa müˈɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1567–1635, French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec; first colonial governor 1633–35.
  • san clemente island — an island off the coast of S California, in the Santa Barbara (Channel) Islands. 24 miles (38 km) long.
  • san juan de la cruz — San Juan de la [sahn hwahn de lah] /sɑn ʰwɑn dɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
  • sandra day o'connor — Frank (Michael Donovan) 1903–66, Irish writer.
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • santa rosa de copan — a town in W Honduras: site of extensive Mayan ruins.
  • sao jose dos campos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
  • scale down (or up) — to reduce (or increase), often according to a fixed ratio or proportion
  • school of the squad — an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age: The children are at school.
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • secondary dentition — the permanent dentition
  • secondary education — education at high-school level
  • secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
  • secondary intention — See under intention (def 5b).
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • secondary processes — the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
  • secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secondary structure — the arrangement of a polypeptide into a regular alpha helix, beta structure, or random coil configuration by the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds along the length of the chain.
  • secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
  • semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
  • senatorial district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state of the U.S. is divided, each electing one member to the state senate.
  • seventh commandment — “Thou shalt not commit adultery”: seventh of the Ten Commandments.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • shucking and jiving — misleading or deceptive talk or behavior, as to give a false impression.
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • single edge contact — (hardware)   (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
  • slate-colored junco — the eastern subspecies of the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis, having grayer plumage than the several western subspecies.
  • smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
  • socialized medicine — any of various systems to provide the entire population with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health services.
  • sodium metasilicate — a white, granular sodium silicate, Na 2 SiO 3 , soluble in water: used in detergents and in bleaching and cleaning products.
  • solid-state physics — the branch of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter, especially solids; the study of the electromagnetic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of solids.
  • sound effects woman — a woman who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
  • south african dutch — the Boers.
  • specialized subject — a school or university subject that concentrates on a particular field of knowledge
  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • sternocleidomastoid — of, relating to, or involving the sternum, the clavicle, and the mastoid process.
  • subjective idealism — a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.
  • supercritical fluid — A supercritical fluid is a fluid at a temperature and pressure at which there is no difference between liquid and gas.
  • swallow-tailed coat — tail coat.
  • switchblade (knife) — a large jackknife that snaps open when a release button on the handle is pressed
  • take care to do sth — If you take care to do something, you make sure that you do it.
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