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19-letter words containing a, d, s

  • stand in good stead — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
  • stand on one's head — If you stand on your head, you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground.
  • standard atmosphere — an arbitrarily determined vertical distribution of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and density, assumed to have physical constants and conforming to parametric equations, used for calculations in ballistics, the design of pressure altimeters, etc.
  • standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
  • standing martingale — martingale (def 1).
  • stanford university — (education)   A University in the city of Palo Alto, California, noted for work in computing, especially artificial intelligence. See SAIL.
  • stanford-binet test — a revised version of the Binet-Simon scale, prepared at Stanford University for use in the U.S.
  • stanislavski method — method (def 5).
  • starve the bardies! — an exclamation of surprise or protest
  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • steady state theory — a theory in which the universe is assumed to have average properties that are constant in space and time so that new matter must be continuously and spontaneously created to maintain average densities as the universe expands.
  • steady-state theory — a cosmological theory postulating that the universe exists throughout time in a steady state such that the average density of matter does not vary with distance or time. Matter is continuously created in the space left by the receding stars and galaxies of the expanding universe
  • sternocleidomastoid — of, relating to, or involving the sternum, the clavicle, and the mastoid process.
  • straight and narrow — the way of virtuous or proper conduct: After his release from prison, he resolved to follow the straight and narrow.
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • strangulated hernia — a hernia, especially of the intestine, that swells and constricts the blood supply of the herniated part, resulting in obstruction and gangrene.
  • stratford-upon-avon — town in S Warwickshire, England, on the Avon: birthplace & burial place of Shakespeare: pop. of county district (called Stratford-on-Avon) 106,000
  • subjective idealism — a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.
  • submandibular gland — either of a pair of salivary glands located one on each side of and beneath the lower jaw.
  • sun-and-planet gear — a planetary epicyclic gear train.
  • superannuation fund — a fund used for paying pensions
  • supercritical fluid — A supercritical fluid is a fluid at a temperature and pressure at which there is no difference between liquid and gas.
  • supreme de volaille — suprême (def 2).
  • suspended animation — a state of temporary cessation of the vital functions.
  • swallow one's words — to retract a statement, argument, etc, often in humiliating circumstances
  • swallow-tailed coat — tail coat.
  • swallow-tailed kite — an American kite, Elanoides forficatus, having black upper parts, white head and underparts, and a long, deeply forked tail.
  • swedish nightingale — Jenny (Johanna Maria Lind Goldschmidt"The Swedish Nightingale") 1820–87, Swedish soprano.
  • sweetness and light — extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability.
  • 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.
  • take one's medicine — any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
  • take one's mind off — to stop one from thinking about; turn one's attention from
  • take sb/sth in hand — If you take something or someone in hand, you take control or responsibility over them, especially in order to improve them.
  • take up the cudgels — If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
  • tall poppy syndrome — a tendency to disparage any person who has achieved great prominence or wealth
  • tamper-evident seal — A tamper-evident seal is a sealing device designed to reveal if the opening of a container has been interfered with.
  • tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
  • tetramethyldiarsine — an oily slightly water-soluble poisonous liquid with garlic-like odour. Its derivatives are used as accelerators for rubber
  • the british disease — the pattern of strikes and industrial unrest in the 1970s and early 1980s supposed by many during this time to be endemic in Britain and to weaken the British economy
  • the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
  • the first amendment — in the US the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
  • the hampshire downs — a range of low chalk hills that crosses Hampshire in S England
  • the london assembly — the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall, Southwark
  • the middle distance — an unspecified point in the distance
  • the panhandle state — a nickname for West Virginia
  • thiophosphoric acid — an acid derived from phosphoric acid by substituting one or more sulfur atoms for oxygen atoms.
  • thomas of woodstock — Duke of Gloucester, 1355–97, English prince (son of Edward III).
  • thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
  • threadneedle street — a street in the City of London famous for its banks, including the Bank of England, known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
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