19-letter words containing a, r, c, h, f
- north pacific ocean — the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, extending from the equator to the Arctic Ocean.
- open-hearth furnace — a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace (open-hearth furnace) on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.
- pillars of hercules — the two promontories at the E end of the Strait of Gibraltar: the Rock of Gibraltar on the European side and the Jebel Musa on the African side; according to legend, formed by Hercules
- pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
- professional school — a postgraduate school or college which trains students for a particular profession
- pugwash conferences — international peace conferences of scientists held regularly to discuss world problems: Nobel peace prize 1995 awarded to Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) , one of the founders of the conferences, secretary-general (1957–73), and president (1988–97)
- research fellowship — the position or office of someone who conducts academic research into a subject at a university, etc
- saccharofarinaceous — pertaining to or consisting of sugar and meal.
- scare the pants off — to scare extremely
- scratch the surface — examine superficially
- sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
- south african dutch — the Boers.
- south san francisco — a city in central California.
- spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
- specific characters — the persistent features that distinguish one species from all others
- surface effect ship — a large, ship-size air cushion vehicle operated over water.
- take care of sth/sb — If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged.
- the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
- the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
- tricks of the trade — expert techniques
- ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.