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19-letter words containing a, d, r, i, t, c

  • removable cartridge — a hard disk enclosed in a case that can be removed from the disk drive, having more storage than floppy disks.
  • reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
  • resonance radiation — radiation emitted by an atom or molecule, having the same frequency as that of an incident particle, as a photon, and usually involving a transition to the lowest energy level of the atom or molecule.
  • reticulated tracery — tracery consisting in large part of a netlike arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.
  • reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
  • rickettsial disease — any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease
  • saccharolactic acid — mucic acid.
  • saint patrick's day — March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • 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 qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • 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.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
  • south african dutch — the Boers.
  • 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.
  • supercritical fluid — A supercritical fluid is a fluid at a temperature and pressure at which there is no difference between liquid and gas.
  • teilhard de chardin — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher.
  • terminating decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
  • theatrical producer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of a theatrical production
  • thiophosphoric acid — an acid derived from phosphoric acid by substituting one or more sulfur atoms for oxygen atoms.
  • to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
  • trahison des clercs — a compromising of intellectual integrity, esp. for political reasons
  • trickle bed reactor — A trickle bed reactor is a reactor in which gravity makes a gas and a liquid flow through a bed of catalyst.
  • tricks of the trade — expert techniques
  • tropical depression — an atmospheric low-pressure system originating in the tropics, specifically, a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained wind speed is 38 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour) or less.
  • ultracrepidarianism — noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise: The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
  • under consideration — being deliberated
  • veterinary medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of diseases in animals, especially domesticated animals.
  • video tape recorder — a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
  • websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
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