19-letter words containing s, u, r, o, y
- a law unto yourself — If you say that someone is a law unto himself or herself, you mean that they behave in an independent way, ignoring laws, rules, or conventional ways of doing things.
- absolutory sentence — a sentence that acquits the accused
- advocacy journalism — journalism that promotes a cause or expresses a subjective viewpoint.
- antimony trisulfide — a black or orange-red crystalline compound, Sb2S3, used as a pigment, in pyrotechnics and matches, for fireproofing fabrics and paper, etc.
- antoine louis barye — Antoine Louis [ahn-twan lwee] /ɑ̃ˈtwan lwi/ (Show IPA), 1795–1875, French sculptor and painter.
- as long as your arm — If you say that a list is as long as your arm, you are emphasizing that it is very long.
- autoerotic asphyxia — asphyxia caused by intentionally strangling oneself while masturbating in order to intensify the orgasm through reduced oxygen flow to the brain.
- beauty preparations — the cosmetics, creams etc used to improve someone's beauty
- bellybutton surgery — laparoscopy.
- binocular disparity — the small differences in the positions of the parts of the images falling on each eye that results when each eye views the scene from a slightly different position; these differences make stereoscopic vision possible
- bismuth oxychloride — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, BiOCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, face powders, and artificial pearls.
- bloodstock industry — the breeding and training of racehorses
- boundary commission — (in Britain) a body established by statute to undertake periodic reviews of the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies and to recommend changes to take account of population shifts
- bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
- brimstone butterfly — a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
- cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
- cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
- cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
- collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
- community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
- compulsory purchase — purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell
- country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
- country-and-western — country music.
- county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
- directory enquiries — Directory enquiries is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number.
- 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.
- 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
- distribution system — The distribution system is the part of an electric system after the transmission system that is dedicated to delivering electric energy to an end user.
- dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
- evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
- feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
- four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
- isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
- 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.
- keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
- life-support system — A life-support system is the same as a life-support machine.
- 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 your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
- lupus erythematosus — any of several autoimmune diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by red, scaly skin patches.
- magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
- modulus of rigidity — shear modulus.
- molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
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