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19-letter words containing s, p, r, u, c, e

  • sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
  • simple closed curve — a curve that is closed and that has no loops or points missing; a curve for which there exists a homeomorphism mapping it to a circle.
  • slugging percentage — a number expressing a player's average effectiveness in making extra-base hits, calculated by dividing the total number of bases (from all singles, doubles, triples, and home runs) by the number of official at bats
  • sodium hypochlorite — a pale-green, crystalline compound, NaOCl, unstable in air, soluble in cold water, decomposes in hot water: used as a bleaching agent for paper and textiles, in water purification, in household use, and as a fungicide.
  • southern crab apple — a tree, Malus angustifolia, of the eastern U.S., having oblong leaves, fragrant, pink or rose-colored flowers, and small, round, yellow-green fruit.
  • 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.
  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • strict counterpoint — the application of the rules of counterpoint as an academic exercise
  • subnuclear particle — any of the elementary particles, including those that do not exist in stable matter but appear as a result of high-energy collisions of other particles or nuclei.
  • substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
  • subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
  • 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.
  • supercritical fluid — A supercritical fluid is a fluid at a temperature and pressure at which there is no difference between liquid and gas.
  • superhigh frequency — any frequency between 3000 and 30,000 megahertz. Abbreviation: SHF.
  • superiority complex — an exaggerated feeling of one's own superiority.
  • surface effect ship — a large, ship-size air cushion vehicle operated over water.
  • surplus reinsurance — Surplus reinsurance is reinsurance of amounts over a specified amount of insurance.
  • telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
  • the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
  • to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
  • trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
  • trusteeship council — a United Nations body that supervises the government of a territory by a foreign country
  • tussock caterpillar — the larva of a tussock moth.
  • ultracrepidarianism — noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise: The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
  • under police escort — If you go somewhere or are taken somewhere under police escort, you go there accompanied by a police escort.
  • universal recipient — a person with blood type AB, able to receive blood from a person of any blood type but able to donate blood only to a person with the same blood type
  • unnatural practices — acts which are deemed to be contrary to expected standards of human behaviour
  • upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
  • upset the applecart — a pushcart used by a vendor of apples.
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