19-letter words containing a, m, o, r, p
- sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
- simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
- smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
- spherical astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere.
- 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.
- stationers' company — a company or guild of the city of London composed of booksellers, printers, dealers in writing materials, etc., incorporated in 1557.
- step-up transformer — a device that transfers an alternating current from one circuit to one or more other circuits with an increase of voltage
- streaming potential — the potential produced in the walls of a porous membrane or a capillary tube by forcing a liquid through it.
- supplementary story — follow-up (def 3b).
- supreme de volaille — suprême (def 2).
- 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.
- symptomatic anthrax — blackleg.
- take someone's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- tall poppy syndrome — a tendency to disparage any person who has achieved great prominence or wealth
- telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
- the eroica symphony — Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
- the hampshire downs — a range of low chalk hills that crosses Hampshire in S England
- time sharing option — (operating system) (TSO) System software from IBM that provides time-sharing on an IBM mainframe running in an MVS environment.
- trisodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 3).
- tuamotu archipelago — a group of about 80 coral islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 15 973 (2002; including the Gambier Islands). Area: 860 sq km (332 sq miles)
- versa module europa — (hardware) (VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the Eurocard standard. VME was introduced in 1981 by Motorola, Philips, Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the IEEE standard 1014-1987.
- withdrawal symptoms — When someone has withdrawal symptoms, they feel ill after they have stopped taking a drug which they were addicted to.
- wraparound mortgage — a mortgage, as a second mortgage, that includes payments on a previous mortgage that continues in effect.