19-letter words containing e, u, c, a, r, y
- pecuniary advantage — financial advantage that is dishonestly obtained by deception and that constitutes a criminal offence
- peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
- pretty as a picture — girl: sweetly attractive
- property speculator — a person who takes part in property speculation
- puerperal psychosis — a mental disorder sometimes occurring in women after childbirth, characterized by deep depression, delusions of the child's death, and homicidal feelings towards the child
- reciprocity failure — a failure of the two exposure variables, light intensity and exposure time, to behave in a reciprocal fashion at very high or very low values
- reticulated tracery — tracery consisting in large part of a netlike arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.
- 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.
- self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- senatorial courtesy — the practice in the U.S. Senate of confirming only those presidential appointees approved by both senators from the state of the appointee, or by the senior senator of the president's party.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- social security act — a law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation, and federal grants for state welfare programs.
- stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
- synchronous machine — an alternating-current machine in which the average speed of normal operation is exactly proportional to the frequency of the system to which it is connected.
- the channel country — an area of E central Australia, in SW Queensland: crossed by intermittent rivers and subject to both flooding and long periods of drought
- to bury the hatchet — If two people bury the hatchet, they become friendly again after a quarrel or disagreement.
- 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 change your tune — If you say that someone has changed their tune, you are criticizing them because they have changed their opinion or way of doing things.
- ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.
- ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
- university entrance — an examination taken by pupils of postprimary schools
- vapor recovery unit — A vapor recovery unit is a system for recovering vapors from inside sealed crude oil or condensate tanks, with a scrubber (= a device for removing unwanted substances) and compressor (= a device that raises pressure).
- volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998