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19-letter words containing s, c, o, r, e, f

  • post-and-rail fence — a fence constructed of upright wooden posts with horizontal timber slotted through it
  • presumption of fact — a presumption based on experience or knowledge of the relationship between a known fact and a fact inferred from it.
  • process performance — Process performance is a measure of how efficient or effective a process is.
  • professional advice — advice given by someone trained in a particular and relevant profession or job
  • professional school — a postgraduate school or college which trains students for a particular profession
  • pugwash conferences — international peace conferences of scientists held regularly to discuss world problems: Nobel peace prize 1995 awarded to Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) , one of the founders of the conferences, secretary-general (1957–73), and president (1988–97)
  • radius of curvature — the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature at a point on a curve.
  • republic of letters — the collective body of literary people.
  • research fellowship — the position or office of someone who conducts academic research into a subject at a university, etc
  • risk excess of loss — Risk excess of loss is a type of reinsurance that is given to an insurer to protect against a single loss or risk incurred at a specified amount.
  • ruffini's corpuscle — an end organ of certain sensory neurons that branches out parallel to the skin and responds to steady pressure.
  • saccharofarinaceous — pertaining to or consisting of sugar and meal.
  • sacrifice operative — a euphemistic term for a suicide bomber
  • san francisco peaks — a mountain mass in N Arizona: highest point in the state, Humphrey's Peak, 12,611 feet (3845 meters).
  • scare the pants off — to scare extremely
  • secondary infection — an infection resulting from another infection
  • self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • self-reconstruction — an act of reconstructing.
  • sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
  • siberian forest cat — a breed of powerfully-built long-haired cat, typically tabby with a white ruff and white paws
  • specular reflection — Specular reflection is reflection of heat or light in which the angles of different parts of the surface are important.
  • sphere of influence — any area in which one nation wields dominant power over another or others.
  • succession of crops — the continuous cultivation of a crop throughout a season by successive plantings or by the use of varieties with different rates of growth.
  • take care of sth/sb — If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged.
  • take one's cue from — If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
  • the four corners of — You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • transesterification — a reaction between an ester of one alcohol and a second alcohol to form an ester of the second alcohol and an alcohol from the original ester, as that of methyl acetate and ethyl alcohol to form ethyl acetate and methyl alcohol; interesterification.
  • tricks of the trade — expert techniques
  • upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
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