19-letter words containing o, d, n, t, i

proto-indo-european — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Indo-European languages; Indo-European.
pseudo-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
pseudo-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
pseudo-intellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
pseudo-intransitive — denoting an occurrence of a normally transitive verb in which a direct object is not explicitly stated or forms the subject of the sentence, as in Margaret is cooking or these apples cook well
radiation potential — the potential in volts that must be applied to an atom or molecule to cause it to emit radiation at one of its characteristic frequencies.
radiational cooling — the cooling of the earth's surface and adjacent air, primarily at night, caused by a loss of heat due to surface emission of infrared radiation.
rag-tag and bobtail — the riffraff; rabble: The ragtag and bobtail of every nation poured into the frontier in search of gold.
reactive depression — depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.
recording equipment — devices used for sound reproduction
recording secretary — an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.
reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
reindustrialization — the revitalization of an industry or industrial society through government aid and tax incentives, modernization of factories and machinery, etc.
reinforced concrete — concrete containing steel bars, strands, mesh, etc., to absorb tensile and shearing stresses.
relational database — an electronic database comprising multiple files of related information, usually stored in tables of rows (records) and columns (fields), and allowing a link to be established between separate files that have a matching field, as a column of invoice numbers, so that the two files can be queried simultaneously by the user.
religious education — religion as school subject
reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
resonance radiation — radiation emitted by an atom or molecule, having the same frequency as that of an incident particle, as a photon, and usually involving a transition to the lowest energy level of the atom or molecule.
reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
rio grande do norte — a state in E Brazil. 20,464 sq. mi. (53,000 sq. km). Capital: Natal.
romanian tenderloin — a cut of beef consisting of the diaphragm muscle.
run into the ground — to do too long or too often; overdo
run-length encoding — A kind of compression algorithm which replaces sequences ("runs") of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. The longer and more frequent the runs are, the greater the compression that will be achieved. This technique is particularly useful for encoding black and white images where the data units would be single bit pixels.
samoa standard time — a standard time used in the zone which includes American Samoa, corresponding to the mean solar time of the 165th meridian west of Greenwich, England: it is eleven hours behind Greenwich time
sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
secondary dentition — the permanent dentition
secondary education — education at high-school level
secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
secondary intention — See under intention (def 5b).
secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
self-administration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
sell down the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
senatorial district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state of the U.S. is divided, each electing one member to the state senate.
sensory deprivation — the experimental or natural reduction of environmental stimuli, as by physical isolation or loss of eyesight, often leading to cognitive, perceptual, or behavioral changes, as disorientation, delusions, or panic.
sessional indemnity — the remuneration paid to a member of the Canadian parliament.
sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
sheet flood erosion — Geology. erosion by sheets of running water, rather than by streams.
single edge contact — (hardware) (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
solid of revolution — a three-dimensional figure formed by revolving a plane area about a given axis.
south african dutch — the Boers.

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