19-letter words containing f, o, r, p
- sense of proportion — If someone has a sense of proportion, they know what is really important and what is not.
- sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
- spare a thought for — If you spare a thought for an unfortunate person, you make an effort to think sympathetically about them and their bad luck.
- specular reflection — Specular reflection is reflection of heat or light in which the angles of different parts of the surface are important.
- sphere of influence — any area in which one nation wields dominant power over another or others.
- spirit of hartshorn — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, aqueous solution of about 28.5 percent ammonia gas: used chiefly as a detergent, for removing stains and extracting certain vegetable coloring agents, and in the manufacture of ammonium salts.
- splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
- spread oneself thin — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- step-up transformer — a device that transfers an alternating current from one circuit to one or more other circuits with an increase of voltage
- stratford-upon-avon — town in S Warwickshire, England, on the Avon: birthplace & burial place of Shakespeare: pop. of county district (called Stratford-on-Avon) 106,000
- succession of crops — the continuous cultivation of a crop throughout a season by successive plantings or by the use of varieties with different rates of growth.
- superannuation fund — a fund used for paying pensions
- the grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
- the top of the tree — If you say that someone is at the top of the tree, you mean that they have reached the highest level in their career or profession.
- to keep to yourself — If you keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.
- to one's fingertips — entirely; altogether
- to tear a strip off — If you tear a strip off someone or if you tear them off a strip, you speak to them angrily and criticize them severely.
- to the prejudice of — to the detriment of
- tropic of capricorn — Astronomy. the Goat, a zodiacal constellation between Sagittarius and Aquarius.
- upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
- want no part of sth — If you say that you want no part of something, you mean that you do not want to be involved in it at all.
- war of independence — American Revolution.
- whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
- world day of prayer — the first Friday in Lent, during which Christians belonging to ecumenical communions pray for foreign missions.
- writ of prohibition — a command by a higher court that a lower court shall not exercise jurisdiction in a particular case.