19-letter words containing a, d, u, n, c, t
- pseudo-intellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
- reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
- religious education — religion as school subject
- reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
- reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
- saint vitus's dance — chorea (def 2).
- screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
- secondary education — education at high-school level
- 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.
- semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
- 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.
- 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.
- stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
- 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.
- 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
- vacuum distillation — a process of distillation employing a vacuum that by lowering the pressure on a liquid allows volatilization at a lower temperature than normal.
- velocity modulation — the modulation in velocity of a beam of electrons or ions caused by passing the beam through a high-frequency electric field, as in a cavity resonator
- vocational guidance — the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which he or she shows aptitude.