19-letter words containing p, a, g, n, i, s
- sea floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
- sea-floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
- secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
- separation negative — Photography. a black-and-white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color image.
- sexual stereotyping — the formation or promotion of a fixed general idea or image of how men and women will behave
- shipping department — a department in a company responsible for arranging, receiving, recording, and sending shipments of goods
- shoestring potatoes — potatoes cut into long, very narrow strips and fried crisp in deep fat
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- single-line display — a display that presents information in a single line
- slugging percentage — a number expressing a player's average effectiveness in making extra-base hits, calculated by dividing the total number of bases (from all singles, doubles, triples, and home runs) by the number of official at bats
- smite hip and thigh — to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
- smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
- social anthropology — study of human culture
- spaghetti bolognese — Italian dish of pasta and tomato sauce
- speaking in tongues — a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity.
- spider-hunting wasp — any solitary wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea, having a slender elongated body: the fast-running female hunts spiders as a food store for her larvae
- splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
- standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
- streaming potential — the potential produced in the walls of a porous membrane or a capillary tube by forcing a liquid through 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.
- tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
- teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
- time sharing option — (operating system) (TSO) System software from IBM that provides time-sharing on an IBM mainframe running in an MVS environment.
- travelling expenses — expenses that are paid to someone, for example, by their employer, for the costs they need to travel
- up against the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
- waterglass painting — stereochromy.
- whispering campaign — the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.