19-letter words containing c, o, p, y, t
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- hydroelectric power — electricity generated by water
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
- hyperbolic geometry — the branch of non-Euclidean geometry that replaces the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry with the postulate that two distinct lines may be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.
- 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.
- hypocholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypocholesterolemia.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- inferiority complex — Psychiatry. intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness.
- jockey for position — If someone is jockeying for position, they are using whatever methods they can in order to get into a better position than their rivals.
- joint-stock company — an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.
- leukoencephalopathy — (medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain.
- lobby correspondent — a political correspondent who reports from parliament
- mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
- metropolitan county — (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986
- molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
- mutual fund company — a company that sells and manages mutual funds
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
- newcastle upon tyne — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- nonplayer character — a character in a tabletop role-playing game who is controlled by the Game Master.
- nonthrombocytopenic — Not thrombocytopenic.
- on an empty stomach — If you do something on an empty stomach, you do it without having eaten.
- orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- outplacement agency — an agency that provides counselling and careers advice, esp to redundant executives, which is paid for by their previous employer
- parasympathomimetic — having an effect similar to that produced when the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated
- parathyroid extract — an aqueous preparation obtained from the parathyroid gland of cattle, used in medicine chiefly in cases of parathyroid deficiency and in veterinary medicine in the treatment of tetanic convulsions.
- parthenogenetically — development of an egg without fertilization.
- participatory sport — a sport in which people take part, (as opposed to a spectator sport)
- particle technology — Particle technology is knowledge and study which relates to particles, and is used in industry.
- party-column ballot — Indiana ballot.
- performance anxiety — the stage fright that a person feels when they are about to perform (a play, piece of music etc) in front of an audience
- phenylethyl alcohol — phenethyl alcohol.
- phenylthiocarbamide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- photographic memory — total recall
- phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
- pneumatic conveying — Pneumatic conveying is the movement of powdered or granulated solids using air.
- political geography — the branch of human geography that deals with the relationship between political processes and spatial structures (regions, territories, etc)
- politically correct — marked by or adhering to a typically progressive orthodoxy on issues involving especially ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ecology: The actor’s comment about unattractive women was not politically correct. The CEO feels that people who care about being politically correct are overly sensitive. Abbreviations: PC, P.C.
- polyclonal antibody — a mixture of antibodies of different specificities, as in the serum of a person immunized to various antigens.