19-letter words containing s, o, n, a, c, y
- 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.
- smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
- social anthropology — study of human culture
- spherical astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere.
- st. anthony's cross — a T -shaped cross.
- stationers' company — a company or guild of the city of London composed of booksellers, printers, dealers in writing materials, etc., incorporated in 1557.
- stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
- sympathetic contact — behavior toward an individual based on the individual's personal makeup rather than on his or her group membership.
- symptomatic anthrax — blackleg.
- synchromesh gearbox — A synchromesh gearbox is a usually manually operated transmission in which a change of gears takes place between gears that are already revolving at the same speed.
- 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.
- the eroica symphony — Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
- to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- unconstitutionality — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
- volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
- websters-dictionary — Informal. a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998