19-letter words containing s, p, e, r
- 3dnow! professional — (architecture) A floating point SIMD extention from AMD, compatible with Intel's SSE, introduced with the Athlon-4.
- a slap on the wrist — A slap on the wrist is a warning or a punishment that is not very severe.
- a storm in a teacup — If you describe a situation as a storm in a teacup, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something that is not important.
- absorption spectrum — the characteristic pattern of dark lines or bands that occurs when electromagnetic radiation is passed through an absorbing medium into a spectroscope. An equivalent pattern occurs as coloured lines or bands in the emission spectrum of that medium
- accessory apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- accounts department — the section of a company that deals with the accounts
- acoustic gramophone — a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
- active server pages — (web, programming) (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4.0 includes scripting engines for Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft JScript. ActiveX scripting engines for Perl and REXX are available through third-party developers.
- ad astra per aspera — to the stars through difficulties
- aerial top dressing — the process of spreading lime, fertilizer, etc over farmland from an aeroplane
- agency spokesperson — a spokesperson for a government agency
- aggravated trespass — an offence in which a trespasser in the open air attempts to interfere with a lawful activity, such as hunting
- agitated depression — severe depression accompanied by extreme anxiety and agitation
- aladdin enterprises — (company) A small, privately owned, US software consulting and development company, founded in 1986, best known as the original developer of Ghostscript. Address: San Francisco Peninsula, California, USA. Not to be confused with Aladdin Systems, Inc..
- alpha ursae minoris — Polaris
- angle of depression — depression (def 11).
- answerphone message — a pre-recorded message that is left on an answering machine, usually inviting callers to leave a message
- antarctic peninsula — the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south
- apollonius of perga — ?261–?190 bc, Greek mathematician, remembered for his treatise on conic sections
- appetite depressant — a product which reduces one's appetite
- appointments bureau — an office responsible for filling appointments
- appraisal interview — an interview by the manager of an employee who is being appraised
- apres moi le deluge — after me the deluge
- armed response unit — (in Britain) a unit of police officers who are trained to use firearms in situations where unarmed police officers would be in danger
- asperger's syndrome — a form of autism in which the person affected has limited but obsessive interests, and has difficulty relating to other people
- assistant professor — An assistant professor is a college teacher who ranks above an instructor but below an associate professor.
- associate professor — An associate professor is a college teacher who ranks above an assistant professor but below a professor.
- at one's fingertips — readily available and within one's mental grasp
- atmospheric braking — a technique of reentry in which the vehicle is maneuvered in the upper atmosphere so as to lose velocity by utilizing drag without overheating.
- audio response unit — a device that enables a computer to give a spoken response by generating sounds similar to human speech.
- autoerotic asphyxia — asphyxia caused by intentionally strangling oneself while masturbating in order to intensify the orgasm through reduced oxygen flow to the brain.
- awareness programme — a programme designed to increase awareness of something
- banker's acceptance — a draft or bill of exchange drawn on a bank and accepted by it
- barometric pressure — atmospheric pressure as indicated by a barometer
- be burnt to a crisp — If something is burnt to a crisp, it is completely burnt.
- be one's own person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- beauty preparations — the cosmetics, creams etc used to improve someone's beauty
- bird's-eye primrose — a Eurasian primrose, Primula farinosa, having clusters of purplish flowers with yellow centres
- blackstrap molasses — the molasses remaining after the maximum quantity of sugar has been extracted from the raw material
- blast from the past — You can use a blast from the past as a light-hearted way of referring to something such as an old song or fashion that you hear or notice again, and which reminds you of an earlier time.
- blood pressure cuff — A blood pressure cuff is a medical device consisting of a piece of rubber or similar material that is wrapped around a patient's arm and then inflated in order to measure their blood pressure.
- blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
- box-office receipts — the money earned from ticket sales for a film or play
- breathing apparatus — an apparatus, usually consisting of tanks of air or oxygen and a mouthpiece, that enables the wearer to breath in difficult conditions such as a smoke-filled building
- brightline spectrum — the spectrum of an incandescent substance appearing on a spectrogram as one or more bright lines against a dark background.
- brush-tailed possum — any of several widely-distributed Australian possums of the genus Trichosurus
- by one's bootstraps — by one's own efforts; unaided
- camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
- canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
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