19-letter words containing c, a, v, e, s, o
- major seventh chord — a chord much used in modern music, esp jazz and pop, consisting of a major triad with an added major seventh above the root
- motivation research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
- national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- ordnance survey map — An Ordnance Survey map is a detailed map produced by the British or Irish government map-making organization.
- pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.
- private prosecution — a prosecution started by a private individual rather than by the police
- professional advice — advice given by someone trained in a particular and relevant profession or job
- pseudo-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- psychological novel — a novel that focuses on the complex mental and emotional lives of its characters and explores the various levels of mental activity.
- radius of curvature — the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature at a point on a curve.
- rake over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- rancho palos verdes — a town in SW California.
- reactive depression — depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.
- reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
- resistance movement — a movement fighting (for freedom, etc), often secretly or illegally, against an invader in an occupied country or against the country's government, etc
- restorative justice — a theory and method in criminal justice in which it is arranged that the victim and the community receive restitution from the offender.
- reversible reaction — a reaction that, depending on ambient conditions, can proceed in either of two directions: the production of the reaction products from the reactants, or the production of the original reactants from the formed reaction products. Compare equilibrium (def 4).
- roosevelt corollary — a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
- sacrifice operative — a euphemistic term for a suicide bomber
- salvage archaeology — the collection of archaeological data and materials from a site in danger of imminent destruction, as from new construction or flooding.
- saturation coverage — news coverage (of an event, etc) that is very thorough in order not to miss any details
- save someone's neck — to help someone else escape from such a situation
- segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
- selective attention — mental focus on sth in particular
- seventh commandment — “Thou shalt not commit adultery”: seventh of the Ten Commandments.
- soviet central asia — the region of the former Soviet Union now occupied by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
- speculative fiction — a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
- stochastic variable — a random variable.
- subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
- take evasive action — If you take evasive action, you deliberately move away from someone or something in order to avoid meeting them or being hit by them.
- theological virtues — one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.
- vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
- vicariate apostolic — a district under the jurisdiction of a vicar apostolic.
- volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
- waste heat recovery — the use of heat that is produced in a thermodynamic cycle, as in a furnace, combustion engine, etc, in another process, such as heating feedwater or air
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998