19-letter words containing s, o, e, y
- compulsory purchase — purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell
- conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
- contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- cooperative society — a commercial enterprise owned and managed by and for the benefit of customers or workers
- count oneself lucky — If you say that someone can count themselves lucky, you mean that the situation they are in or the thing that has happened to them is better than it might have been or than they might have expected.
- country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
- country-and-western — country music.
- county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
- cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel
- cry over spilt milk — to lament something that cannot be altered
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- davy jones's locker — the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
- deflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- deoxycorticosterone — a corticosteroid hormone important in maintaining sodium and water balance in the body
- deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
- diamond anniversary — a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary
- dictionary of names — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- diethylstilbesterol — Misspelling of diethylstilbestrol\u200e.
- diethylstilboestrol — Diethylstilbestrol.
- dihydrostreptomycin — an antibiotic, C 21 H 41 N 7 O 12 , derived by organic synthesis from and believed to be less toxic than streptomycin: used in the form of its sulfate chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- dihydrotestosterone — (steroid) An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers.
- dimethylnitrosamine — a yellow, water-soluble carcinogenic liquid, C 2 H 6 N 2 O, found in tobacco smoke and certain foods: known to be a potent carcinogen. Abbreviation: DMN, DMNA.
- directory enquiries — Directory enquiries is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number.
- discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
- discretionary trust — a trust in which the beneficiaries' shares are not fixed in the trust deed but are left to the discretion of other persons, often the trustees
- distribution system — The distribution system is the part of an electric system after the transmission system that is dedicated to delivering electric energy to an end user.
- diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
- double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
- double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
- electrodynamometers — Plural form of electrodynamometer.
- electrophysiologist — A physiologist whose speciality is electrophysiology.
- empty-nest syndrome — a condition, often involving depression, loneliness, etc, experienced by parents living in a home from which the children have grown up and left
- energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
- english toy spaniel — breed of dog
- evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- feast one's eyes on — to look at with pleasure or admiration
- feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
- flexible kelly hose — A flexible kelly hose is a hose which carries mud to the kelly.
- floppy (disk) drive — the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on floppy disks
- flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- give one's eyeteeth — Dentistry. a canine tooth of the upper jaw: so named from its position under the eye.
- go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence