19-letter words containing s, u, p, o
- court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
- covered-dish supper — a meal to which guests contribute food, as casseroles.
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- customer experience — Customer experience is what customers feel while shopping, affected by such factors as how a store is laid out, the level of service they receive, and how easy it is to find products.
- customer preference — Customer preference is what type of product an individual customer likes and dislikes.
- deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
- developable surface — a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or compressing any part of it, as a circular cone.
- disambiguation page — a page on a website that lists various websites or web pages that have or could have the same title. The user is able to select from the list that page, site etc that he or she actually wants
- discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
- disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
- dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
- dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
- electrotherapeutics — (medicine) the use of electricity in therapeutics.
- equal opportunities — Equal opportunities refers to the policy of giving everyone the same opportunities for employment, pay and promotion, without discriminating against particular groups.
- european commission — the executive body of the European Union formed in 1967, which initiates action in the EU and mediates between member governments
- exclusion principle — Pauli exclusion principle
- finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
- first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
- fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
- fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
- franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
- gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
- get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
- gloucester old spot — a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley
- have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
- herpes zoster virus — a type of herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
- high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
- hold up one's hands — to confess a mistake or misdeed
- hop, skip, and jump — a short distance
- hop, step, and jump — triple jump.
- house of ill repute — a house of prostitution; whorehouse; brothel.
- 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.
- idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
- index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
- instantaneous speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the rate of change of position with respect to time at a particular point. It is measured in metres per second, miles per hour, etc
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
- judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
- jump to conclusions — to come to a conclusion prematurely, without sufficient thought or on incomplete evidence
- jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
- kick up one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- league championship — the competition to become league champions
- leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
- liaodong pensinsula — a peninsula of NE China, in S Manchuria extending south into the Yellow Sea: forms the S part of Liaoning province
- life-support system — A life-support system is the same as a life-support machine.
- lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
- look sb up and down — If someone looks you up and down, they direct their eyes from your head to your feet, in a rude and superior way and often as though they disapprove of you.