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19-letter words containing e, n, t, i, c, s

  • take evasive action — If you take evasive action, you deliberately move away from someone or something in order to avoid meeting them or being hit by them.
  • take one's medicine — any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • technical institute — a higher-education institution
  • tehachapi mountains — a transverse (E–W) mountain range in S central California. Highest peak, Double Mountain, 7982 feet (2433 meters).
  • term life insurance — life insurance for which premiums are paid over a limited time and that covers a specific term, the face value payable only if death occurs within that term.
  • the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
  • the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
  • the eroica symphony — Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • the finishing touch — If you add the finishing touches to something, you add or do the last things that are necessary to complete it.
  • the mathworks, inc. — (company)   The company marketing MATLAB. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, Massachusetts 01760-2098 USA. Telephone: +1 (508) 647-7000. Fax: +1 (508) 647-7101.
  • the middle distance — an unspecified point in the distance
  • thermionic emission — the emission of electrons from very hot solids or liquids: used for producing electrons in valves, electron microscopes, X-ray tubes, etc
  • to be in the charts — (of a record or pop group) to be popular
  • to ring the changes — If you say that someone rings the changes, you mean that they make changes or improvements to the way something is organized or done.
  • to sit on the fence — If you sit on the fence, you avoid supporting a particular side in a discussion or argument.
  • to the exclusion of — If you do one thing to the exclusion of something else, you only do the first thing and do not do the second thing at all.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • trahison des clercs — a compromising of intellectual integrity, esp. for political reasons
  • transesterification — a reaction between an ester of one alcohol and a second alcohol to form an ester of the second alcohol and an alcohol from the original ester, as that of methyl acetate and ethyl alcohol to form ethyl acetate and methyl alcohol; interesterification.
  • transuranic element — any element having an atomic number greater than 92, the atomic number of uranium. All such elements are radioactive and can be synthesized by bombarding a heavy element with a light particle or element. See also transactinide element.
  • tropical depression — an atmospheric low-pressure system originating in the tropics, specifically, a tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained wind speed is 38 miles per hour (62 kilometers per hour) or less.
  • trusteeship council — a United Nations body that supervises the government of a territory by a foreign country
  • twenty-six counties — the counties of the Republic of Ireland
  • ultracrepidarianism — noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise: The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
  • ultrasonic cleaning — the use of ultrasound to vibrate a piece to be cleaned while the piece is immersed in a cleaning fluid. The process produces a very high degree of cleanliness, and is used for jewellery and ornately shaped items
  • under consideration — being deliberated
  • under police escort — If you go somewhere or are taken somewhere under police escort, you go there accompanied by a police escort.
  • universal recipient — a person with blood type AB, able to receive blood from a person of any blood type but able to donate blood only to a person with the same blood type
  • university entrance — an examination taken by pupils of postprimary schools
  • unnatural practices — acts which are deemed to be contrary to expected standards of human behaviour
  • up to one's neck in — deeply involved in
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • vesicular exanthema — an infectious viral disease of swine, characterized by blisters on the snout, mucous membranes, and feet.
  • viatical settlement — the purchase by a charity of a life assurance policy owned by a person with only a short time to live, to enable that person to use the proceeds during his or her lifetime
  • volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
  • wassermann reaction — a diagnostic test for syphilis using the fixation of a complement by the serum of a syphilitic individual.
  • watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
  • websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
  • what makes one tick — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
  • white-winged scoter — a blackish North American duck, Melanitta deglandi, having a white patch on each wing.
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
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