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19-letter words containing r, e, t, s, i

  • trusteeship council — a United Nations body that supervises the government of a territory by a foreign country
  • tubular steel chair — a chair with a frame made of tubular steel
  • turn sth inside out — If someone turns a place inside out or upside down, they search it very thoroughly and usually make it very untidy.
  • tussock caterpillar — the larva of a tussock moth.
  • twist someone's arm — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • ultracrepidarianism — noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise: The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
  • ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
  • ultrasonic cleaning — the use of ultrasound to vibrate a piece to be cleaned while the piece is immersed in a cleaning fluid. The process produces a very high degree of cleanliness, and is used for jewellery and ornately shaped items
  • under consideration — being deliberated
  • under police escort — If you go somewhere or are taken somewhere under police escort, you go there accompanied by a police escort.
  • under the spotlight — If someone or something comes under the spotlight, they are thoroughly examined, especially by journalists and the public.
  • underrepresentation — the act of representing.
  • unit of measurement — physical quantity
  • united presbyterian — a member of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, founded in Pittsburgh in 1858 by a union of two Presbyterian groups.
  • universal recipient — a person with blood type AB, able to receive blood from a person of any blood type but able to donate blood only to a person with the same blood type
  • university entrance — an examination taken by pupils of postprimary schools
  • university hospital — a hospital that is affiliated with a university. University hospitals provide clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients
  • unnatural practices — acts which are deemed to be contrary to expected standards of human behaviour
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • verdigris toadstool — a basidiomycetous fungus, Stropharia aeruginosa, having a distinctive and unusual blue-green cap and paler shaggy stem
  • vertical stabilizer — the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.
  • vesicular exanthema — an infectious viral disease of swine, characterized by blisters on the snout, mucous membranes, and feet.
  • vicariate apostolic — a district under the jurisdiction of a vicar apostolic.
  • volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
  • wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
  • wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
  • wassermann reaction — a diagnostic test for syphilis using the fixation of a complement by the serum of a syphilitic individual.
  • watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
  • waterglass painting — stereochromy.
  • websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
  • west dunbartonshire — a council area of W central Scotland, on Loch Lomond and the Clyde estuary: corresponds to part of the historical county of Dunbartonshire; part of Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: engineering industries. Administrative centre: Dumbarton. Pop: 92 320 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
  • western yellow pine — ponderosa pine.
  • wet behind the ears — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
  • whistle in the dark — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white-fronted goose — a grayish-brown wild goose, Anser albifrons, of Eurasia and western North America, having a white patch on the front of the face.
  • white-winged scoter — a blackish North American duck, Melanitta deglandi, having a white patch on each wing.
  • whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
  • whorled loosestrife — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lysimachia, of the primrose family, having clusters of usually yellow flowers, as L. vulgaris (garden loosestrife) or L. quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
  • winged spindle tree — a stiff, spreading shrub, Euonymus alata, of eastern Asia, having corky-winged twigs, yellowish flowers, and purplish fruit.
  • wire-wound resistor — a resistor consisting of a wire with a high resistance wound in a coil around a cylindrical core of insulating material.
  • wireless telegraphy — Now Rare. radiotelegraphy.
  • with your eyes open — If you say that you did something with your eyes open or with your eyes wide open, you mean that you knew about the problems and difficulties that you were likely to have.
  • withdrawal syndrome — a spectrum of physical and behavioral symptoms following cessation from the continuous use of an addictive drug, the character and severity of the symptoms depending upon the particular drug and the daily dose.
  • within one's rights — If you say that someone is within their rights to do something, you mean that they are morally or legally entitled to do it.
  • woman in the street — the average woman: a new magazine for the woman in the street.
  • world heritage site — a natural or manmade area or structure which is recognized as being of international importance and therefore deserving special protection
  • xenotransplantation — xenograft.
  • xt bus architecture — (hardware, architecture)   (After the IBM PC XT) An eight-bit ISA bus architecture used by Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 systems in the IBM PC and IBM PC XT in the 1980s. It predates the 16-bit ISA architecture used on the Intel 80286 based machines. The XT bus has four DMA channels, of which three are brought out to the expansion slots. Of these three, two are normally allocated to machine functions: DMA channel Expansion Standard function 0 No {dynamic RAM} refresh 1 Yes add-on cards 2 Yes {floppy disk} controller 3 Yes {hard disc} controller (1997-09-15)
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
  • your hands are tied — If you say that your hands are tied, you mean that something is preventing you from acting in the way that you want to.
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