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19-letter words containing s, p

  • (down) in the dumps — in low spirits; depressed
  • 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.
  • a thing of the past — If something is a thing of the past, it no longer exists or happens, or is being replaced by something new.
  • abnormal psychology — the study of behaviour patterns that diverge widely from generally accepted norms, esp those of a pathological nature
  • absolute complement — complement (def 8).
  • absolute impediment — a fact or circumstance that disqualifies a person from lawful marriage.
  • 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
  • ace up one's sleeve — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
  • acknowledgment slip — a piece of paper that you sign as proof of having received a letter, parcel, payment, etc
  • 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
  • ad-hoc polymorphism — overloading
  • aerial top dressing — the process of spreading lime, fertilizer, etc over farmland from an aeroplane
  • affective psychosis — a severe mental disorder characterized by extreme moods of either depression or mania
  • 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
  • aglaophon of thasos — flourished 6th to 5th centuries b.c, Greek painter: father and teacher of Polygnotus.
  • 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..
  • alcohol consumption — the drinking of alcohol
  • alcoholic psychosis — any of a group of major mental disorders, as delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and hallucinosis, associated with organic brain injury due to alcohol.
  • all-points bulletin — An all-points bulletin is a message sent by a police force to all its officers. The abbreviation APB is also used.
  • alpha canis majoris — Sirius
  • alpha canis minoris — Procyon
  • alpha ursae minoris — Polaris
  • alphonse and gaston — marked by a ritualistic courtliness in which two often competing participants graciously but stubbornly defer to each other: a kind of Alphonse and Gaston act in which each man insisted the other go through the doorway first.
  • analytic philosophy — a 20th-cent. philosophic movement characterized by its method of analyzing concepts and statements in the light of common experience and ordinary language so as to eliminate confusions of thought and resolve many traditional philosophical problems
  • analytic psychology — the system of psychology developed by C. G. Jung as a variant of psychoanalysis
  • 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
  • anti-prohibitionist — a person who favors or advocates prohibition.
  • anticompetitiveness — The quality of being anticompetitive.
  • apollonius dyscolus — died a.d. c140, Greek grammarian.
  • apollonius of perga — ?261–?190 bc, Greek mathematician, remembered for his treatise on conic sections
  • appetite depressant — a product which reduces one's appetite
  • application testing — system testing
  • applied linguistics — linguistic theory as applied to such fields as lexicography, psychology, the teaching of reading, the creation of orthographies, and especially language teaching.
  • 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
  • as sick as a parrot — If you say that you feel as sick as a parrot, you feel very disappointed about something.
  • as things/people go — You use expressions like as things go or as children go when you are describing one person or thing and comparing them with others of the same kind.
  • asperger's syndrome — a form of autism in which the person affected has limited but obsessive interests, and has difficulty relating to other people

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