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19-letter words containing l, e, t, b, y

  • liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
  • lobby correspondent — a political correspondent who reports from parliament
  • mary mcleod bethune — Mary McLeod [muh-kloud] /məˈklaʊd/ (Show IPA), 1875–1955, U.S. educator and civil-rights leader.
  • molybdenum trioxide — a white, crystalline, sparingly water-soluble powder, MoO 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of molybdenum compounds.
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • oxyacetylene burner — a blowpipe for cutting or welding metals at high temperatures
  • palomar observatory — an astronomical observatory situated on Palomar Mountain in S California, having a 200-inch (508-cm) reflecting telescope and a 48-inch (122-cm) Schmidt telescope.
  • phenylthiocarbamide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
  • research laboratory — place for scientific experimentation
  • self-responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • the admiralty board — (formerly) a department of the British Ministry of Defence, responsible for the administration and planning of the Royal Navy
  • the london assembly — the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall, Southwark
  • to blow a raspberry — If you blow a raspberry, you make a sound by putting your tongue out and blowing, in order to insult someone.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to hold your breath — If you hold your breath, you make yourself stop breathing for a few moments, for example because you are under water.
  • to turn a blind eye — If you say that someone is turning a blind eye to something bad or illegal that is happening, you mean that you think they are pretending not to notice that it is happening so that they will not have to do anything about it.
  • turn a blind eye to — to pretend not to notice or ignore deliberately
  • unlimited liability — liability that is not restricted to any unpaid portion of nominal capital invested in a business
  • very large database — (database)   (VLDB) A database that can use a Very Large Memory model to keep as much data as possible in physical memory. (Oracle http://oracle.com/platforms/dec/collateral/vlmwp_3.html).
  • wearable technology — a small computer or advanced electronic device that is worn or carried on the body: the trendiest wearable technologies.
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