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19-letter words containing d, e, n, o

  • pseudo-intellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
  • pseudo-intransitive — denoting an occurrence of a normally transitive verb in which a direct object is not explicitly stated or forms the subject of the sentence, as in Margaret is cooking or these apples cook well
  • pseudo-professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • pseudorandom number — (programming)   One of a sequence of numbers generated by some algorithm so as to have an even distribution over some range of values and minimal correlation between successive values. Pseudorandom numbers are used in simulation and encryption. They are pseudorandom not random because the sequence eventually repeats exactly and is entirely determined by the initial conditions. One of the simplest algorithms is x[i+1] = (a * x[i] + c) mod m but this repeats after at most m numbers and successive numbers are closely related. Better algorithms generally use more previous numbers to calculate the next number.
  • psychoendocrinology — the study of the relationship between the endocrine system and various symptoms or types of mental illness.
  • put on the feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
  • put one's foot down — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
  • radiation potential — the potential in volts that must be applied to an atom or molecule to cause it to emit radiation at one of its characteristic frequencies.
  • ralph waldo emerson — Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
  • rancho palos verdes — a town in SW California.
  • reactive depression — depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.
  • recording equipment — devices used for sound reproduction
  • recording secretary — an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.
  • reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
  • reference electrode — an electrode of known oxidation potential used in determining the electromotive force of a galvanic cell.
  • regular icosahedron — an icosahedron in which each of the faces is an equilateral triangle
  • reindustrialization — the revitalization of an industry or industrial society through government aid and tax incentives, modernization of factories and machinery, etc.
  • reinforced concrete — concrete containing steel bars, strands, mesh, etc., to absorb tensile and shearing stresses.
  • relational database — an electronic database comprising multiple files of related information, usually stored in tables of rows (records) and columns (fields), and allowing a link to be established between separate files that have a matching field, as a column of invoice numbers, so that the two files can be queried simultaneously by the user.
  • religious education — religion as school subject
  • republic of ireland — John, 1838–1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888–1918.
  • reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
  • resonance radiation — radiation emitted by an atom or molecule, having the same frequency as that of an incident particle, as a photon, and usually involving a transition to the lowest energy level of the atom or molecule.
  • reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
  • rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
  • right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
  • rio grande do norte — a state in E Brazil. 20,464 sq. mi. (53,000 sq. km). Capital: Natal.
  • romanian tenderloin — a cut of beef consisting of the diaphragm muscle.
  • royal correspondent — a journalist who reports on matters relating to royalty
  • run into the ground — to do too long or too often; overdo
  • run-length encoding — A kind of compression algorithm which replaces sequences ("runs") of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. The longer and more frequent the runs are, the greater the compression that will be achieved. This technique is particularly useful for encoding black and white images where the data units would be single bit pixels.
  • sackcloth and ashes — a public display of extreme grief, remorse, or repentance
  • samoa standard time — a standard time used in the zone which includes American Samoa, corresponding to the mean solar time of the 165th meridian west of Greenwich, England: it is eleven hours behind Greenwich time
  • san bernardino pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in SE Switzerland. Highest point: 2062 m (6766 ft)
  • san fernando valley — valley in SW Calif., partly in NW Los Angeles: c. 260 sq mi (673 sq km)
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • santa rosa de copan — a town in W Honduras: site of extensive Mayan ruins.
  • santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
  • sao paulo de luanda — Luanda.
  • scale down (or up) — to reduce (or increase), often according to a fixed ratio or proportion
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • sea floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • sea-floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • seasonal adjustment — an adjustment that removes the seasonal component of statistics
  • secondary dentition — the permanent dentition
  • secondary education — education at high-school level
  • secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
  • secondary intention — See under intention (def 5b).
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • secondary processes — the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
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