19-letter words containing r, a, y, c, s, t
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- least recently used — (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future.
- liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
- magnetic hysteresis — hysteresis in a ferromagnetic material; the lag in the response of magnetic induction to changes of magnetic intensity.
- mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
- narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- oil-catalyst slurry — Oil-catalyst slurry is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit, that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply.
- orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- parasympathomimetic — having an effect similar to that produced when the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated
- participatory sport — a sport in which people take part, (as opposed to a spectator sport)
- permanent secretary — the senior civil servant responsible for running a government ministry
- physical impairment — A physical impairment is a condition in which a part of a person's body is damaged or is not working properly.
- postsynchronization — the process of adding sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting or videotaping is completed
- pretty as a picture — girl: sweetly attractive
- property speculator — a person who takes part in property speculation
- psychrometric chart — a chart for calculating values of relative humidity, absolute humidity, and dew point from psychrometer readings.
- rayleigh scattering — the scattering of light by particles that are very small in relation to the wavelength of the light, and in which the intensity of the scattered light varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.
- recording secretary — an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.
- research laboratory — place for scientific experimentation
- rhythmic gymnastics — a form of gymnastics involving movements using hand apparatus such as balls, hoops, and ribbons
- roosevelt corollary — a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
- royal correspondent — a journalist who reports on matters relating to royalty
- saint patrick's day — March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
- sanitary protection — Sanitary protection is sanitary towels or tampons.
- secondary dentition — the permanent dentition
- secondary education — education at high-school level
- secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
- secondary intention — See under intention (def 5b).
- secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
- secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
- secondary structure — the arrangement of a polypeptide into a regular alpha helix, beta structure, or random coil configuration by the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds along the length of the chain.
- secondary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
- senatorial courtesy — the practice in the U.S. Senate of confirming only those presidential appointees approved by both senators from the state of the appointee, or by the senior senator of the president's party.
- 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.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.