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19-letter words containing p, o, s, t, c

  • psychrometric chart — a chart for calculating values of relative humidity, absolute humidity, and dew point from psychrometer readings.
  • push comes to shove — matters become serious or reach a critical point where some action or decision is required
  • put one's back into — to devote all one's strength to (a task)
  • put sth into action — If you put an idea or policy into action, you begin to use it or cause it to operate.
  • quartermaster corps — the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for supplying food, clothing, fuel, and equipment and for the operation of commissaries, laundries, etc.
  • rap on the knuckles — a mild reprimand or light sentence
  • reactive depression — depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.
  • relocation expenses — Relocation expenses are a sum of money that a company pays to someone who moves to a new area in order to work for the company. The money is to help them pay for moving house.
  • repeat prescription — A repeat prescription is a prescription for a medicine that you have taken before or that you use regularly.
  • republic of letters — the collective body of literary people.
  • reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
  • resorcinolphthalein — fluorescein.
  • royal correspondent — a journalist who reports on matters relating to royalty
  • sacrifice operative — a euphemistic term for a suicide bomber
  • 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.
  • santa rosa de copan — a town in W Honduras: site of extensive Mayan ruins.
  • scare the pants off — to scare extremely
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • short-stay car park — a car park where a car can be left for a relatively short time
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • southern crab apple — a tree, Malus angustifolia, of the eastern U.S., having oblong leaves, fragrant, pink or rose-colored flowers, and small, round, yellow-green fruit.
  • 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
  • stephen cole kleene — Stephen Kleene
  • strict counterpoint — the application of the rules of counterpoint as an academic exercise
  • 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.
  • superiority complex — an exaggerated feeling of one's own superiority.
  • sympathetic contact — behavior toward an individual based on the individual's personal makeup rather than on his or her group membership.
  • symptomatic anthrax — blackleg.
  • 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).
  • telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
  • the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
  • 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
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