19-letter words containing i, r, s, o, u
- wire-wound resistor — a resistor consisting of a wire with a high resistance wound in a coil around a cylindrical core of insulating material.
- with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
- with your eyes open — If you say that you did something with your eyes open or with your eyes wide open, you mean that you knew about the problems and difficulties that you were likely to have.
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
- your hands are tied — If you say that your hands are tied, you mean that something is preventing you from acting in the way that you want to.
- zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.