19-letter words containing o, u, t, r, s
- stratford-upon-avon — town in S Warwickshire, England, on the Avon: birthplace & burial place of Shakespeare: pop. of county district (called Stratford-on-Avon) 106,000
- strict counterpoint — the application of the rules of counterpoint as an academic exercise
- 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.
- substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
- subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
- sugar loaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
- sulfureted hydrogen — hydrogen sulfide.
- superannuation fund — a fund used for paying pensions
- superiority complex — an exaggerated feeling of one's own superiority.
- supplementary story — follow-up (def 3b).
- suspension geometry — Suspension geometry is the geometric arrangement of the parts of a suspension system, and the value of the lengths and angles within it.
- suspensory ligament — any of several tissues that suspend certain organs or parts of the body, especially the transparent, delicate web of fibrous tissue that supports the crystalline lens.
- swimming instructor — sb who teaches people to swim
- take one's cue from — If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
- tear one's hair out — the act of tearing.
- telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
- the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
- the four corners of — You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other.
- the open university — (in Britain) a university founded in 1969 for mature students studying by television and radio lectures, correspondence courses, local counselling, and summer schools
- the volunteer state — a nickname for Tennessee
- theological virtues — one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.
- theory of equations — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods of finding the solutions to algebraic equations.
- thrust augmentation — an increase in the thrust of a jet or rocket engine, as by afterburning or reheating.
- to be running short — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
- to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
- to click your heels — If someone such as a soldier clicks their heels, they make a sound by knocking the heels of their shoes together when saluting or greeting someone.
- to clutch at straws — If you are clutching at straws or grasping at straws, you are trying unusual or extreme ideas or methods because other ideas or methods have failed.
- to follow your nose — If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
- to keep to yourself — If you keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.
- to lick your wounds — If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
- to lose your temper — If you lose your temper, you become so angry that you shout at someone or show in some other way that you are no longer in control of yourself.
- to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- to reserve judgment — If you reserve judgment on something, you refuse to give an opinion about it until you know more about it.
- to run out of steam — If you run out of steam, you stop doing something because you have no more energy or enthusiasm left.
- to shudder to think — If you say that you shudder to think what would happen in a particular situation, you mean that you expect it to be so bad that you do not really want to think about it.
- to strut your stuff — If you strut your stuff, you act in a proud way and show off.
- 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.
- to wet your whistle — To wet your whistle means to have a drink.
- 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.
- traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
- training instructor — a person who teaches people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
- trisodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 3).
- trouble someone for — to ask someone to pass, hand, give, etc. (something) to one
- trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
- trusteeship council — a United Nations body that supervises the government of a territory by a foreign country
- 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.
- turn sth inside out — If someone turns a place inside out or upside down, they search it very thoroughly and usually make it very untidy.
- tussock caterpillar — the larva of a tussock moth.
- u.s. robotics, inc. — (company) A US modem manufacturer. Finger: usr.com. E-mail: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> (USA and Canada), <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> (Europe), <[email protected]> (other).
- ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.