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

  • resorcinolphthalein — fluorescein.
  • ring up the curtain — to begin a theatrical performance
  • sacrifice operative — a euphemistic term for a suicide bomber
  • saint patrick's day — March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
  • san juan capistrano — a city in SW California: site of old Spanish mission; known for annual return of swallows, said to occur on March 19.
  • sanitary protection — Sanitary protection is sanitary towels or tampons.
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • setting-up exercise — any of a set of exercises, as deep knee bends and push-ups, for improving one's posture, muscle tone, or limberness, or for reducing one's weight.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • simple carbohydrate — a carbohydrate, as glucose, that consists of a single monosaccharide unit.
  • single-cell protein — a protein produced or derived from the culture of a single-celled organism, used as a food supplement or substitute. Abbreviation: SCP.
  • 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
  • smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
  • 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.
  • spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
  • special partnership — limited partnership.
  • specialized subject — a school or university subject that concentrates on a particular field of knowledge
  • specific characters — the persistent features that distinguish one species from all others
  • 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
  • speeding conviction — a conviction for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
  • spherical astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere.
  • split-second timing — timing that depends on minute precision
  • stationers' company — a company or guild of the city of London composed of booksellers, printers, dealers in writing materials, etc., incorporated in 1557.
  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • strict counterpoint — the application of the rules of counterpoint as an academic exercise
  • subnuclear particle — any of the elementary particles, including those that do not exist in stable matter but appear as a result of high-energy collisions of other particles or nuclei.
  • 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.
  • supercritical fluid — A supercritical fluid is a fluid at a temperature and pressure at which there is no difference between liquid and gas.
  • superiority complex — an exaggerated feeling of one's own superiority.
  • surface effect ship — a large, ship-size air cushion vehicle operated over water.
  • 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.
  • telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
  • 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
  • the peter principle — the theory, usually taken facetiously, that all members in a hierarchy rise to their own level of incompetence
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