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19-letter words containing s, c, u, r, y, i

  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • superhigh frequency — any frequency between 3000 and 30,000 megahertz. Abbreviation: SHF.
  • superiority complex — an exaggerated feeling of one's own superiority.
  • synchronous machine — an alternating-current machine in which the average speed of normal operation is exactly proportional to the frequency of the system to which it is connected.
  • to click your heels — If someone such as a soldier clicks their heels, they make a sound by knocking the heels of their shoes together when saluting or greeting someone.
  • to lick your wounds — If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
  • to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
  • university entrance — an examination taken by pupils of postprimary schools
  • volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
  • with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
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