19-letter words containing a, n, o, y, c
- entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
- free-market economy — an economy based on the free market system
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
- generic array logic — (hardware, integrated circuit) (GAL) A newer kind of Programmable Array Logic based on EEPROM storage cells, been pioneered by Lattice. GALs can be erased and reprogrammed and usually replace a whole set of different PALs (hence the name).
- heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
- hydroxybenzoic acid — Hydroxybenzoic acid is the active ingredient in a number of drugs, for example, aspirin. Hydroxybenzoic acid is also used as a preservative.
- hydroxydaunorubicin — Doxorubicin.
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- intentional fallacy — (in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work.
- interferometrically — By means of interferometry.
- introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
- invasion of privacy — an encroachment upon the right to be let alone or to be free from publicity.
- jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
- joint-stock company — an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.
- kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
- knock someone bandy — to amaze or astound
- leukoencephalopathy — (medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain.
- library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
- lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
- magnetohydrodynamic — Of or pertaining to magnetohydrodynamics.
- maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
- mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
- mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- maternity allowance — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a payment made to a pregnant woman who usually works but does not qualify for statutory maternity pay, normally from 11 weeks before confinement for a period of 18 weeks
- metropolitan county — (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986
- microelectronically — by microcircuits
- molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
- monoclonal antibody — antibody produced by a laboratory-grown cell clone, either of a hybridoma or a virus-transformed lymphocyte, that is more abundant and uniform than natural antibody and is able to bind specifically to a single site on almost any chosen antigen or reveal previously unknown antigen sites: used as an analytic tool in scientific research and medical diagnosis and potentially important in the treatment of certain diseases. Abbreviation: MAb.
- munchausen syndrome — a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
- mutual fund company — a company that sells and manages mutual funds
- narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.