19-letter words containing b, e, s, c, r, i
- subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
- substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
- subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
- telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
- to be in the charts — (of a record or pop group) to be popular
- to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
- tubular steel chair — a chair with a frame made of tubular steel
- upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
- vertical stabilizer — the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.
- websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
- xt bus architecture — (hardware, architecture) (After the IBM PC XT) An eight-bit ISA bus architecture used by Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 systems in the IBM PC and IBM PC XT in the 1980s. It predates the 16-bit ISA architecture used on the Intel 80286 based machines. The XT bus has four DMA channels, of which three are brought out to the expansion slots. Of these three, two are normally allocated to machine functions: DMA channel Expansion Standard function 0 No {dynamic RAM} refresh 1 Yes add-on cards 2 Yes {floppy disk} controller 3 Yes {hard disc} controller (1997-09-15)