19-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i, l
- lateral line system — a system of sensory organs in fishes and aquatic amphibians consisting of a series of cells on the head and along the sides of the body that detect pressure changes and vibrations
- learning disability — a disorder, as dyslexia, usually affecting school-age children of normal or above-normal intelligence, characterized by difficulty in understanding or using spoken or written language, and thought to be related to impairment or slowed development of perceptual motor skills.
- leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
- let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
- liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
- licensing agreement — an agreement that sets out the fees and terms of use for something available only under licence
- lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
- life-support system — A life-support system is the same as a life-support machine.
- lighten sb's burden — If someone or something lightens your burden or your load, they make a bad or difficult situation better for you.
- like a cheshire cat — If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely.
- limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
- limited partnership — a partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner.
- liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
- liquorice all-sorts — a brand of assorted sweets containing liquorice as well as coloured candy made of sugar, gelatine, and coconut
- lobster-tail helmet — a burgonet fitted with a long, articulated tail of lames for protecting the nape of the neck, worn by cavalry in the 17th century.
- locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
- lose no opportunity — If you say that someone loses no opportunity to do or say a particular thing, you are emphasizing that they do it or say it whenever it is possible.
- lose one's shirt on — to lose all one has on (a horse, etc)
- lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- maestro di cappella — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp a private one attached to the palace of a prince in Italy during the baroque period
- mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
- malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
- marriage settlement — a formal agreement made before marriage disposing of the property of the couple to be married
- massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
- mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
- miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
- molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
- moses-in-the-cradle — a plant, Rhoeo spathacea, native to the West Indies and Central America, having leaves with purple undersides and white flowers enclosed in a boat-shaped envelope formed by two bracts.
- mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
- multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
- national characters — (character) Characters with accents and other diacritical marks that are used in certain written languages (that are based on the Roman alphabet) but not in others, particularly not in English. A standard list is ISO Latin 1.
- national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
- neurotransmissional — Relating to neurotransmission.
- new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
- nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
- no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
- non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- nonrepresentational — not resembling or portraying any object in physical nature: a nonrepresentational painting.
- nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- nuclear disarmament — the gradual reduction and eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world
- object-oriented sql — (language) (OSQL) A functional language, a superset of SQL, used in Hewlett-Packard's OpenODB database system.
- observation balloon — a balloon that is used for gathering information and reconnaissance purposes and spotting aircraft
- old english pattern — a spoon pattern having a stem curving backward at the end.
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.