19-letter words containing d, o, c, u, t
- 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.
- vacuum distillation — a process of distillation employing a vacuum that by lowering the pressure on a liquid allows volatilization at a lower temperature than normal.
- velocity modulation — the modulation in velocity of a beam of electrons or ions caused by passing the beam through a high-frequency electric field, as in a cavity resonator
- vocational guidance — the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which he or she shows aptitude.
- what-do-you-call-it — whachamacallit.