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19-letter words containing s, t, i, v, e

  • educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
  • electronegativities — Plural form of electronegativity.
  • energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
  • evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
  • executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
  • executive secretary — supports executives or departments
  • farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
  • give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
  • give one's eyeteeth — Dentistry. a canine tooth of the upper jaw: so named from its position under the eye.
  • give sb the willies — If someone or something gives you the willies, they make you feel nervous or frightened.
  • glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
  • go on the offensive — If you go on the offensive, go over to the offensive, or take the offensive, you begin to take strong action against people who have been attacking you.
  • goods received note — a document created by a buyer on receipt of merchandise and which describes each good and details the quantity of each received
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • have designs on sth — If someone has designs on something, they want it and are planning to get it, often in a dishonest way.
  • have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • have sth against sb — If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them.
  • have the makings of — show potential as
  • herpes zoster virus — a type of herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
  • hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
  • in the driving seat — If you say that someone is in the driving seat, you mean that they are in control in a situation.
  • in-service training — training that is given to employees during the course of employment
  • information service — a service which provides information
  • intensive care unit — the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. Abbreviation: ICU.
  • internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
  • interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
  • intervertebral disc — any of the cartilaginous discs between individual vertebrae, acting as shock absorbers
  • intervertebral disk — the plate of fibrocartilage between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae.
  • inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
  • investment compound — investment (def 11).
  • it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
  • japanese arborvitae — a Japanese evergreen tree, Thuja standishii, having spreading branches with bright-green leaves.
  • jehovah's witnesses — a Christian sect, founded in the U.S. in the late 19th century, that believes in the imminent destruction of the world's wickedness and the establishment of a theocracy under God's rule.
  • kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
  • legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
  • lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
  • 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.
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
  • massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
  • mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
  • mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
  • minor seventh chord — a chord consisting of a minor triad with an added minor seventh above the root
  • most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
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