19-letter words containing d, o, c, u, r
- 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.
- secondary education — education at high-school level
- secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
- secondary structure — the arrangement of a polypeptide into a regular alpha helix, beta structure, or random coil configuration by the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds along the length of the chain.
- semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
- simple closed curve — a curve that is closed and that has no loops or points missing; a curve for which there exists a homeomorphism mapping it to a circle.
- slate-colored junco — the eastern subspecies of the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis, having grayer plumage than the several western subspecies.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- 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.
- south african dutch — the Boers.
- stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
- theatrical producer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of a theatrical production
- to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
- to lick your wounds — If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
- to suck someone dry — If you say that someone is sucking something dry or milking it dry, you are criticizing them for taking all the good things from it until there is nothing left.
- to the prejudice of — to the detriment of
- under consideration — being deliberated
- under one's control — If something is under your control, you have the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- under police escort — If you go somewhere or are taken somewhere under police escort, you go there accompanied by a police escort.