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19-letter words containing d, i, s, e, t

  • rickettsial disease — any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease
  • saber-toothed tiger — any of several extinct members of the cat family Felidae from the Oligocene to Pleistocene Epochs, having greatly elongated, saberlike upper canine teeth.
  • sabre-toothed tiger — any of various extinct Tertiary felines of the genus Smilodon and related genera, with long curved upper canine teeth
  • saddle-billed stork — a large stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, of West Africa, having a white and black body and a long, red and black bill.
  • saint vitus's dance — chorea (def 2).
  • 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 clemente island — an island off the coast of S California, in the Santa Barbara (Channel) Islands. 24 miles (38 km) long.
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • 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 qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • self-administration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
  • self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • sell down the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
  • semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
  • semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
  • semipalmated plover — a New World plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, having a black ring around the chest and semipalmate feet, inhabiting beaches and salt marshes.
  • senatorial district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state of the U.S. is divided, each electing one member to the state senate.
  • sensory deprivation — the experimental or natural reduction of environmental stimuli, as by physical isolation or loss of eyesight, often leading to cognitive, perceptual, or behavioral changes, as disorientation, delusions, or panic.
  • sessional indemnity — the remuneration paid to a member of the Canadian parliament.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • sharp-tailed grouse — a grouse, Pedioecetes phasianellus, of prairies and open forests of western North America, similar in size to the prairie chicken but with a more pointed tail.
  • sheet flood erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
  • shield-tailed snake — any of several burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, of the Indian peninsula and Sri Lanka, having a tail that ends in a flat disk.
  • ship-to-shore radio — a radio that carries communications between land and sea
  • shipping department — a department in a company responsible for arranging, receiving, recording, and sending shipments of goods
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • single edge contact — (hardware)   (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
  • sixteenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on incomes.
  • small advertisement — a short, simply designed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, usually set entirely in a small size of type
  • smite hip and thigh — to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
  • smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
  • sodium hydrosulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 4 , used as a reducing agent, especially in dyeing, and as a bleach.
  • sodium hypochlorite — a pale-green, crystalline compound, NaOCl, unstable in air, soluble in cold water, decomposes in hot water: used as a bleaching agent for paper and textiles, in water purification, in household use, and as a fungicide.
  • sodium metasilicate — a white, granular sodium silicate, Na 2 SiO 3 , soluble in water: used in detergents and in bleaching and cleaning products.
  • sodium thiosulphate — a white soluble substance used, in the pentahydrate form, in photography as a fixer to dissolve unchanged silver halides and also to remove excess chlorine from chlorinated water. Formula: Na2S2O3
  • solid of revolution — a three-dimensional figure formed by revolving a plane area about a given axis.
  • solid-state physics — the branch of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter, especially solids; the study of the electromagnetic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of solids.
  • sow one's wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • specialized subject — a school or university subject that concentrates on a particular field of knowledge
  • speeding conviction — a conviction for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
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