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19-letter words containing p, h, o, t, i, c

  • photoreconnaissance — reconnaissance using aerial photography.
  • photovoltaic effect — the phenomenon in which the incidence of light or other electromagnetic radiation upon the junction of two dissimilar materials, as a metal and a semiconductor, induces the generation of an electromotive force.
  • phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
  • piece of the action — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
  • pistachio ice cream — ice cream flavoured with pistachios
  • pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).
  • police headquarters — building where police are stationed
  • political geography — the branch of human geography that deals with the relationship between political processes and spatial structures (regions, territories, etc)
  • polyphonic ringtone — (in mobile phones) a ringtone in which more than one musical note is played at the same time
  • postsynchronization — the process of adding sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting or videotaping is completed
  • preach to the choir — to express an opinion to someone who is already in agreement with it
  • prescription charge — a charge, set by the government, to be paid by a patient for medicines
  • priority scheduling — (operating system)   Processes scheduling in which the scheduler selects tasks to run based on their priority as opposed to, say, a simple round-robin. Priorities may be static or dynamic. Static priorities are assigned at the time of creation, while dynamic priorities are based on the processes' behaviour while in the system. For example, the scheduler may favour I/O-intensive tasks so that expensive requests can be issued as early as possible. A danger of priority scheduling is starvation, in which processes with lower priorities are not given the opportunity to run. In order to avoid starvation, in preemptive scheduling, the priority of a process is gradually reduced while it is running. Eventually, the priority of the running process will no longer be the highest, and the next process will start running. This method is called aging.
  • programmer's switch — (hardware)   A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
  • proton-proton chain — a series of thermonuclear reactions, responsible for the energy production in stars like the sun, in which the nuclei of hydrogen atoms are transformed into helium nuclei by sequential addition of single hydrogen nuclei.
  • psychotechnological — of or relating to psychotechnology
  • psychrometric chart — a chart for calculating values of relative humidity, absolute humidity, and dew point from psychrometer readings.
  • put sth into action — If you put an idea or policy into action, you begin to use it or cause it to operate.
  • quick on the uptake — You say that someone is quick on the uptake when they understand things quickly. You say that someone is slow on the uptake when they have difficulty understanding simple or obvious things.
  • radiochromatography — chromatography in which radiolabeled substances on the chromatogram are determined quantitatively or qualitatively by measuring their radioactivity.
  • radiopharmaceutical — any of a number of radioactive drugs used diagnostically or therapeutically.
  • resorcinolphthalein — fluorescein.
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • social anthropology — study of human culture
  • 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.
  • solid-state physics — the branch of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter, especially solids; the study of the electromagnetic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of solids.
  • south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
  • spherical astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere.
  • substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
  • sympathetic contact — behavior toward an individual based on the individual's personal makeup rather than on his or her group membership.
  • symptomatic anthrax — blackleg.
  • teacher-pupil ratio — the number of teachers relative to the number of pupils in a particular school
  • 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.
  • tehachapi mountains — a transverse (E–W) mountain range in S central California. Highest peak, Double Mountain, 7982 feet (2433 meters).
  • telephone directory — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
  • the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
  • the eroica symphony — Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • the little corporal — a nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
  • theatrical producer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of a theatrical production
  • theoretical physics — abstract use of physics
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • thiophosphoric acid — an acid derived from phosphoric acid by substituting one or more sulfur atoms for oxygen atoms.
  • tie-clip microphone — a small microphone that is clipped to a person's tie
  • to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
  • to the prejudice of — to the detriment of
  • toshiba corporation — (company)   A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, consumer products and medical diagnostic imaging equipment. In FY 2003-4, Toshiba employed 161,286 people.
  • trooping the colour — a military ceremony, performed by regiments of the British army and the Commonwealth, in which the regimental colour or flag is marched past ranks of troops
  • trusteeship council — a United Nations body that supervises the government of a territory by a foreign country
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