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19-letter words containing a, y, o

  • electromechanically — In an electromechanical way.
  • electronic keyboard — a typewriter keyboard used to operate an electronic device such as a computer, word processor, etc
  • electropalatography — the study of the movements of the tongue during speech using touch-sensitive electrodes in the mouth linked to a computer
  • electrophoretically — By means of electrophoresis.
  • employment tribunal — (in England, Scotland, and Wales) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
  • enabling technology — technology that enables the user to perform a task or to improve his or her overall performance: e.g. the internet
  • energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
  • engineering factory — a factory where engineering products are made
  • english toy spaniel — breed of dog
  • entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
  • environmental lobby — a group of people who promote environmental issues to government, the public, and business
  • evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
  • 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.
  • extraterritoriality — (legal) immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
  • eye make-up remover — a product used to remove cosmetics such as mascara and eyeliner
  • 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.
  • feast one's eyes on — to look at with pleasure or admiration
  • february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
  • february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
  • feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
  • fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
  • flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
  • forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
  • four-o'clock family — the plant family Nyctaginaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having colored, petallike bracts beneath petalless flowers and winged or grooved dry fruit, and including the bougainvillea and four-o'clock.
  • fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
  • free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
  • 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.
  • gamma ray astronomy — the branch of astronomy that deals with the study of celestial objects by means of the gamma rays that come from them.
  • gamma-ray astronomy — the branch of astronomy that deals with the study of celestial objects by means of the gamma rays that come from them.
  • general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
  • 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).
  • go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
  • have a few too many — If you say that someone has had a few too many or has had a few, you mean that they have drunk too many alcoholic drinks.
  • have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • heart in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
  • heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
  • heavy-water reactor — a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water as moderator
  • henry david thoreauHenry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • henry the navigatorPrince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
  • hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.
  • heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
  • histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
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