19-letter words containing m, e, d, r, o
- semipalmated plover — a New World plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, having a black ring around the chest and semipalmate feet, inhabiting beaches and salt marshes.
- simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
- simple closed curve — a curve that is closed and that has no loops or points missing; a curve for which there exists a homeomorphism mapping it to a circle.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- sodium hydrosulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 4 , used as a reducing agent, especially in dyeing, and as a bleach.
- sodium hypochlorite — a pale-green, crystalline compound, NaOCl, unstable in air, soluble in cold water, decomposes in hot water: used as a bleaching agent for paper and textiles, in water purification, in household use, and as a fungicide.
- standard atmosphere — an arbitrarily determined vertical distribution of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and density, assumed to have physical constants and conforming to parametric equations, used for calculations in ballistics, the design of pressure altimeters, etc.
- sternocleidomastoid — of, relating to, or involving the sternum, the clavicle, and the mastoid process.
- strontium hydroxide — a white, slightly water-soluble powder, Sr(OH) 2 , or its crystalline octahydrate (strontium hydrate) used chiefly in the refining of beet sugar.
- supreme de volaille — suprême (def 2).
- take my word for it — If you say to someone 'take my word for it', you mean that they should believe you because you are telling the truth.
- tall poppy syndrome — a tendency to disparage any person who has achieved great prominence or wealth
- the admiralty board — (formerly) a department of the British Ministry of Defence, responsible for the administration and planning of the Royal Navy
- the almighty dollar — money regarded figuratively as a god, or source of great power
- the hampshire downs — a range of low chalk hills that crosses Hampshire in S England
- theodore von karman — Theodore, 1881–1963, U.S. scientist and aeronautical engineer, born in Hungary.
- threshold agreement — an agreement between an employer and employees or their union to increase wages by a specified sum if inflation exceeds a specified level in a specified time
- tired and emotional — slightly drunk
- 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 reserve judgment — If you reserve judgment on something, you refuse to give an opinion about it until you know more about it.
- to suck someone dry — If you say that someone is sucking something dry or milking it dry, you are criticizing them for taking all the good things from it until there is nothing left.
- tourette's syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
- transdenominational — of or relating to a denomination or denominations.
- trisodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 3).
- turn someone's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- unorganized ferment — ferment (def 2).
- versa module europa — (hardware) (VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the Eurocard standard. VME was introduced in 1981 by Motorola, Philips, Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the IEEE standard 1014-1987.
- wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
- withdrawal syndrome — a spectrum of physical and behavioral symptoms following cessation from the continuous use of an addictive drug, the character and severity of the symptoms depending upon the particular drug and the daily dose.
- world wide web worm — (web) (WWWW) One of the first automatic indexing tools for the web, being developed in September 1994 by Oliver McBryan <[email protected]> at the University of Colorado. The worm created a database of 300,000 multimedia objects which can be obtained or searched for keywords via the web.
- wraparound mortgage — a mortgage, as a second mortgage, that includes payments on a previous mortgage that continues in effect.
- yeoman of the guard — a member of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, instituted in 1485, which now consists of 100 men, including officers, having purely ceremonial duties.
- yourdon methodology — (programming) The software engineering methodology developed by Edward Yourdon and colleagues in the 1970s and 1980s. "Yourdon methodology" is a generic term for all of the following methodologies: Yourdon/Demarco, Yourdon/Constantine, Coad/Yourdon.