19-letter words containing a, n, y, r, o, d
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- henry david thoreau — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- hydropneumatization — utilization of air pressure in the housing of a water turbine to keep the level of water that has been used from rising to interfere with the rotor blades.
- 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.
- 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.
- introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
- john maynard keynes — John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883–1946, English economist and writer.
- keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
- land of opportunity — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- lay down one's arms — to stop fighting; surrender
- lead someone astray — If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something that is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
- longitudinal parity — (storage, communications) An extra byte (or word) appended to a block of data in order to reveal corruption of the data. Bit n of this byte indicates whether there was an even or odd number of "1" bits in bit position n of the bytes in the block. The parity byte is computed by XORing the data bytes in the block. Longitudinal parity allows single bit errors to be detected.
- magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
- 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.
- midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
- 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.
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- neuropsychodynamics — The theoretical synthesis of neuroscience and psychodynamics.
- nine--days---wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
- nonproprietary drug — A nonproprietary drug is a generic drug that is essentially similar to a drug with a brand name.
- north new hyde park — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- one way and another — on balance
- one's pride and joy — Someone or something that is your pride and joy is very important to you and makes you feel very happy.
- ordnance survey map — An Ordnance Survey map is a detailed map produced by the British or Irish government map-making organization.
- out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- overplay one's hand — If you say that someone is overplaying something such as a problem, you mean that they are making it seem more important than it really is.
- parathyroid hormone — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the parathyroid glands, that helps regulate the blood levels of calcium and phosphate. Abbreviation: PTH.
- peritoneal dialysis — a form of dialysis in which the peritoneum is used as an autogenous semipermeable membrane
- phenylthiocarbamide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- recording secretary — an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.
- royal correspondent — a journalist who reports on matters relating to royalty
- san fernando valley — valley in SW Calif., partly in NW Los Angeles: c. 260 sq mi (673 sq km)
- sandra day o'connor — Frank (Michael Donovan) 1903–66, Irish writer.
- secondary dentition — the permanent dentition
- secondary education — education at high-school level
- secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
- secondary intention — See under intention (def 5b).
- secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
- secondary processes — the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
- 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.
- secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- sensory deprivation — the experimental or natural reduction of environmental stimuli, as by physical isolation or loss of eyesight, often leading to cognitive, perceptual, or behavioral changes, as disorientation, delusions, or panic.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- stanford university — (education) A University in the city of Palo Alto, California, noted for work in computing, especially artificial intelligence. See SAIL.
- stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept