19-letter words containing a, g, o
- sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
- santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
- saturation coverage — news coverage (of an event, etc) that is very thorough in order not to miss any details
- scattersite housing — public housing, especially for low-income families, built throughout an urban area rather than being concentrated in a single neighborhood.
- screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
- sea floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
- sea-floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
- secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
- secretarial college — a college where people are trained to be secretaries
- segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
- self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- separation negative — Photography. a black-and-white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color image.
- sexual stereotyping — the formation or promotion of a fixed general idea or image of how men and women will behave
- sharp-tailed grouse — a grouse, Pedioecetes phasianellus, of prairies and open forests of western North America, similar in size to the prairie chicken but with a more pointed tail.
- shoestring potatoes — potatoes cut into long, very narrow strips and fried crisp in deep fat
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- sidereal hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the hour circle passing through the vernal equinox and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- sign of aggregation — any of the signs used to indicate grouping in an algebraic expression: vinculum, bar, or raised horizontal line, ; a pair of parentheses, (a + b); a pair of brackets, [ a + b ]; or a pair of braces, { a + b }.
- single edge contact — (hardware) (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
- smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
- social anthropology — study of human culture
- social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
- social organization — the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.
- spaghetti bolognese — Italian dish of pasta and tomato sauce
- spare a thought for — If you spare a thought for an unfortunate person, you make an effort to think sympathetically about them and their bad luck.
- speaking in tongues — a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity.
- splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
- sql module language — A language used to interface other languages (Ada, C, COBOL) to SQL-based DBMSes. It is an ANSI standard. Version: Ada/SAME by Informix.
- stagnation mastitis — caked breast.
- 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.
- standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
- stationary engineer — a person who runs or is licensed to run a stationary engine.
- 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.
- strait of gibraltar — a narrow strait between the S tip of Spain and the NW tip of Africa, linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic
- streaming potential — the potential produced in the walls of a porous membrane or a capillary tube by forcing a liquid through it.
- street photographer — a paparazzo
- sugar loaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
- suspensory ligament — any of several tissues that suspend certain organs or parts of the body, especially the transparent, delicate web of fibrous tissue that supports the crystalline lens.
- synchromesh gearbox — A synchromesh gearbox is a usually manually operated transmission in which a change of gears takes place between gears that are already revolving at the same speed.
- take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
- talleyrand-perigord — Charles Maurice de [sharl moh-rees duh] /ʃarl moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), Prince de Bénévent [duh bey-ney-vahn] /də beɪ neɪˈvɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1754–1838, French statesman.
- taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
- tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
- teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
- tetralogy of fallot — a congenital malformation of the heart characterized by an abnormal opening in the septum dividing the ventricles, misplacement of the aorta so that it receives blood from both ventricles instead of only the left ventricle, narrowing of the pulmonary artery, and enlargement of the right ventricle.
- the almighty dollar — money regarded figuratively as a god, or source of great power
- the gift of the gab — If someone has the gift of the gab, they are able to speak easily and confidently, and to persuade people. Also the gift of gab, mainly in American English.