19-letter words containing a, p, u, n, t
- a storm in a teacup — If you describe a situation as a storm in a teacup, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something that is not important.
- absolute complement — complement (def 8).
- absolute impediment — a fact or circumstance that disqualifies a person from lawful marriage.
- absorption spectrum — the characteristic pattern of dark lines or bands that occurs when electromagnetic radiation is passed through an absorbing medium into a spectroscope. An equivalent pattern occurs as coloured lines or bands in the emission spectrum of that medium
- accounts department — the section of a company that deals with the accounts
- acoustic gramophone — a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
- alcohol consumption — the drinking of alcohol
- all-points bulletin — An all-points bulletin is a message sent by a police force to all its officers. The abbreviation APB is also used.
- alphabetic language — (human language) A written human language in which symbols reflect the pronunciation of the words. Examples are English, Greek, Russian, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew. Alphabetic languages contrast with ideographic languages.
- ambient temperature — Ambient temperature is the temperature of the air surrounding a component.
- ancillary equipment — Ancillary equipment is machines and other technical things which are used with the main items of equipment to create a complete system.
- antarctic peninsula — the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south
- applied linguistics — linguistic theory as applied to such fields as lexicography, psychology, the teaching of reading, the creation of orthographies, and especially language teaching.
- appointments bureau — an office responsible for filling appointments
- armed response unit — (in Britain) a unit of police officers who are trained to use firearms in situations where unarmed police officers would be in danger
- audio response unit — a device that enables a computer to give a spoken response by generating sounds similar to human speech.
- australian fan palm — a fan palm, Livistona australis, of Australia, having a slender, reddish-brown trunk, spiny leafstalks, and round fruit.
- austro-prussian war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
- autotransplantation — autograft.
- bankruptcy petition — an official request for protection under bankruptcy laws, which initiates bankruptcy proceedings
- be burnt to a crisp — If something is burnt to a crisp, it is completely burnt.
- beauty preparations — the cosmetics, creams etc used to improve someone's beauty
- beta-naphthyl group — See under naphthyl.
- binocular disparity — the small differences in the positions of the parts of the images falling on each eye that results when each eye views the scene from a slightly different position; these differences make stereoscopic vision possible
- breathing apparatus — an apparatus, usually consisting of tanks of air or oxygen and a mouthpiece, that enables the wearer to breath in difficult conditions such as a smoke-filled building
- canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- capacitive coupling — the connection of two or more circuits by means of a capacitor.
- capital expenditure — expenditure on acquisitions of or improvements to fixed assets
- captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
- captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
- chateauneuf-du-pape — a dry red or white wine from the Rhone valley near Avignon.
- circulating capital — the non-permanent raw materials and operating expenses that are used up to produce other goods or services
- columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
- communications port — (hardware, communications) A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
- community policeman — a police officer assigned to a particular area
- community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
- complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
- computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
- consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
- contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- corporate venturing — the provision of venture capital by one company for another in order to obtain information about the company requiring capital or as a step towards acquiring it
- cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
- counter-programming — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- creeping featuritis — (jargon) /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis". Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds. -ism means "condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means "inflammation of".
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- differential backup — (operating system) A kind of backup that copies all files that have changed since the last full backup. Each differential backup will include all files in previous differential backups since the full backup so to restore a version of a file, you only need to search the full backup and the relevant differential backup. Some systems support differential backup by associating an "Archive" flag with each file and setting this flag whenever the file is modified to indicate that it should be included in the next backup. A differential backup does not change this flag, whereas an incremental backup resets it.
- diplomatic immunity — exemption from taxation, searches, arrest, etc., enjoyed by diplomatic officials and their dependent families under international law, and usually on a reciprocal basis.
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