19-letter words containing c, l, a, y, s
- dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
- electrodynamometers — Plural form of electrodynamometer.
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- 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-sized packet — a large packet
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
- hermetically sealed — airtight
- histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
- least recently used — (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future.
- liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
- library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
- lipopolysaccharides — Plural form of lipopolysaccharide.
- lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
- mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
- mucopolysaccharides — Plural form of mucopolysaccharide.
- newcastle upon tyne — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- oil-catalyst slurry — Oil-catalyst slurry is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit, that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply.
- palisade parenchyma — the upper layer of ground tissue in a leaf, consisting of elongated cells beneath and perpendicular to the upper epidermis and constituting the primary area of photosynthesis.
- peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
- physical addressing — (networking) The low level addressing scheme used on Ethernet. The 48-bit destination Ethernet address in a packet is compared with the receiving node's Ethernet address. Compare IP address.
- physical impairment — A physical impairment is a condition in which a part of a person's body is damaged or is not working properly.
- physical sequential — (file format) (PS, QSAM, Queued Sequential Access Method) The simplest data set on an IBM mainframe. Sequential files can only be read or written from the beginning: they do not support random access.
- physically impaired — with reduced or weakened physical capacity
- polyphosphoric acid — any one of a series of oxyacids of phosphorus with the general formula Hn+2PnO3n+1. The first member is pyrophosphoric acid (n = 2) and the series includes the highly polymeric metaphosphoric acid. The higher acids exist in an equilibrium mixture
- property speculator — a person who takes part in property speculation
- pseudopsychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychological novel — a novel that focuses on the complex mental and emotional lives of its characters and explores the various levels of mental activity.
- psychophysiological — of or relating to psychophysiology.
- psychotechnological — of or relating to psychotechnology
- puerperal psychosis — a mental disorder sometimes occurring in women after childbirth, characterized by deep depression, delusions of the child's death, and homicidal feelings towards the child
- rayleigh scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are very small in relation to the wavelength of the light, and in which the intensity of the scattered light varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.
- research laboratory — place for scientific experimentation