19-letter words containing a, s, y, m, e, t
- multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
- multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
- north valley stream — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- novell data systems — (company) A small computer hardware company building CP/M Z80-based systems. They later went on to become Novell, Inc. and develop Novell Netware.
- on an empty stomach — If you do something on an empty stomach, you do it without having eaten.
- over-sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
- palomar observatory — an astronomical observatory situated on Palomar Mountain in S California, having a 200-inch (508-cm) reflecting telescope and a 48-inch (122-cm) Schmidt telescope.
- parasympathomimetic — having an effect similar to that produced when the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated
- permanent secretary — the senior civil servant responsible for running a government ministry
- physical impairment — A physical impairment is a condition in which a part of a person's body is damaged or is not working properly.
- pleased to meet you — greeting
- potassium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, KOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of soap, as a laboratory reagent, and as a caustic.
- psychrometric chart — a chart for calculating values of relative humidity, absolute humidity, and dew point from psychrometer readings.
- pythagoras' theorem — (spelling) It's Pythagoras's Theorem.
- respiratory pigment — any of several colored protein substances, as hemoglobin and hemocyanin, in the circulatory system of animals and some plants, that combine reversibly with oxygen that is carried to the tissues
- segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
- semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
- sessional indemnity — the remuneration paid to a member of the Canadian parliament.
- signalling system 7 — (protocol) (SS7) A protocol suite used for communication with, and control of, telephone central office switches and their attached processors.
- simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- smooth the path/way — If you smooth the path or smooth the way towards something, you make it easier or more likely to happen.
- spherical astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere.
- st.-germain-en-laye — a city in N France, near Paris: royal château and forest; treaties 1570, 1632, 1679, 1919.
- stationers' company — a company or guild of the city of London composed of booksellers, printers, dealers in writing materials, etc., incorporated in 1557.
- strawberry geranium — a plant, Saxifraga stolonifera (or S. sarmentosa), of the saxifrage family, native to eastern Asia, that has rounded, variegated leaves and numerous threadlike stolons and is frequently cultivated as a houseplant.
- supplementary angle — either of two angles that added together produce an angle of 180°.
- supplementary story — follow-up (def 3b).
- 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.
- sympathetic contact — behavior toward an individual based on the individual's personal makeup rather than on his or her group membership.
- tall poppy syndrome — a tendency to disparage any person who has achieved great prominence or wealth
- tetramethyldiarsine — an oily slightly water-soluble poisonous liquid with garlic-like odour. Its derivatives are used as accelerators for rubber
- the eroica symphony — Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
- the london assembly — the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall, Southwark
- ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
- volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
- wade-giles (system) — a system for transliterating Chinese ideograms into the Latin alphabet, in wide use esp. before Pinyin was adopted by the People's Republic of China in 1979
- wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
- welsh mountain pony — a small sturdy but graceful breed of pony used mostly for riding, originally from Wales
- wesleyan methodists — a branch of the Methodist Church in its original form
- withdrawal syndrome — a spectrum of physical and behavioral symptoms following cessation from the continuous use of an addictive drug, the character and severity of the symptoms depending upon the particular drug and the daily dose.