19-letter words containing n, a, f, t
- pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
- point the finger at — to accuse or blame
- post-and-rail fence — a fence constructed of upright wooden posts with horizontal timber slotted through it
- preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
- presumption of fact — a presumption based on experience or knowledge of the relationship between a known fact and a fact inferred from it.
- production platform — offshore power station
- professionalization — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
- put on the feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- queen street farmer — a businessman who runs a farm, often for a tax loss
- rate of penetration — The rate of penetration is the speed with which a drill bit can break the rock under it.
- relief organization — humanitarian group
- republic of vietnam — the name (from 1955–75) for South Vietnam, as an independent republic, following the division of the country in 1954 into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
- reticular formation — a network of neurons in the brainstem involved in consciousness, regulation of breathing, the transmission of sensory stimuli to higher brain centers, and the constantly shifting muscular activity that supports the body against gravity.
- savings certificate — a certificate of deposit for a specific sum of money in a savings account, especially a deposit for a fixed term at a specified interest rate.
- scare the pants off — to scare extremely
- scientific notation — a method for expressing a given quantity as a number having significant digits necessary for a specified degree of accuracy, multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power, as 1385.62 written as 1.386 × 10 3 .
- sea of tranquillity — Astronomy. Mare Tranquillitatis.
- secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
- self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
- self-administration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
- self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
- self-interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
- self-representation — the act of representing.
- self-transformation — the act or process of transforming.
- sentential function — an expression that contains one or more variables and becomes meaningful when suitable constant terms are substituted for them.
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- shortness of breath — respiratory difficulty
- siberian forest cat — a breed of powerfully-built long-haired cat, typically tabby with a white ruff and white paws
- sign of aggregation — any of the signs used to indicate grouping in an algebraic expression: vinculum, bar, or raised horizontal line, ; a pair of parentheses, (a + b); a pair of brackets, [ a + b ]; or a pair of braces, { a + b }.
- significant figures — the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
- single life annuity — A single life annuity is an annuity where only one life is covered.
- son-of-a-bitch stew — (in the Old West) a stew often prepared by chuck-wagon cooks for working cowboys, containing tripe and often also the heart, liver, brains, kidney, etc., of a slaughtered steer.
- sound effects woman — a woman who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
- south african dutch — the Boers.
- south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
- south san francisco — a city in central California.
- spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
- specific resistance — resistivity (def 2).
- specific-resistance — the power or property of resistance.
- specular reflection — Specular reflection is reflection of heat or light in which the angles of different parts of the surface are important.
- speculative fiction — a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
- 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).