19-letter words containing s, t, a, y, c
- disciplinary action — punishment or caution
- 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
- distance university — a degree-granting institution operating wholly or mainly by correspondence courses for students not resident on or within commuting distance of the campus.
- dynamic positioning — Dynamic positioning is the use of computers to control the position of a semi-submersible rig.
- dynamic translation — (architecture) A virtual machine implementation approach, used to speed up execution of byte-code programs. To execute a program unit such as a method or a function, the virtual machine compiles its bytecodes into (hardware) machine code. The translated code is also placed in a cache, so that next time that unit's machine code can be executed immediately, without repeating the translation. This technique was pioneered by the commercial Smalltalk implementation currently known as VisualWorks, in the early 1980s. Currently it is also used by some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine under the name JIT (Just In Time compilation).
- dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
- electrodynamometers — Plural form of electrodynamometer.
- energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
- executive secretary — supports executives or departments
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
- hermetically sealed — airtight
- histopathologically — In a histopathological manner.
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
- individualistically — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- industrial capacity — the amount of resources (workforce, factories, etc) present in a place that will enable an industry or industries to produce goods
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
- joint-stock company — an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business.
- kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
- least recently used — (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future.
- liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
- magnetic hysteresis — hysteresis in a ferromagnetic material; the lag in the response of magnetic induction to changes of magnetic intensity.
- mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
- narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- newcastle upon tyne — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- oil-catalyst slurry — Oil-catalyst slurry is a heavy aromatic by-product of a refinery's fluid catalytic cracking unit, that forms a small part of global fuel oil supply.
- on an empty stomach — If you do something on an empty stomach, you do it without having eaten.
- orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- parasympathomimetic — having an effect similar to that produced when the parasympathetic nervous system is stimulated
- participatory sport — a sport in which people take part, (as opposed to a spectator sport)
- permanent secretary — the senior civil servant responsible for running a government ministry
- physical impairment — A physical impairment is a condition in which a part of a person's body is damaged or is not working properly.