19-letter words containing s, y, n
- a beam in one's eye — a fault or grave error greater in oneself than in another person
- a change of scenery — If you have a change of scenery, you go somewhere different after being in a particular place for a long time.
- 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.
- abnormal psychology — the study of behaviour patterns that diverge widely from generally accepted norms, esp those of a pathological nature
- absolutory sentence — a sentence that acquits the accused
- abstinence syndrome — the withdrawal symptoms that occur after abstinence from a drug, especially a narcotic, to which one is addicted.
- accessory apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- activation analysis — a method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of trace amounts of various elements by measuring the characteristic radioactive decay induced by neutron bombardment.
- adobe systems, inc. — (company) A California font foundry and software house. Adobe created the PostScript page description language and wrote the Blue Book, Green Book, Red Book and White Book on it. They also developed PDF. Adobe took over Frame Technology Corporation in late 1995/early 1996. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Silicon Valley, California, USA.
- advocacy journalism — journalism that promotes a cause or expresses a subjective viewpoint.
- agency spokesperson — a spokesperson for a government agency
- alexis nikolayevich — (Aleksei Nikolayevich) 1904–18, son of Nicholas II of Russia, heir apparent to the Russian throne: executed in the Russian Bolshevik Revolution.
- all in a day's work — If you say that a task is all in a day's work for someone, you mean that they do not mind doing it although it may be difficult, because it is part of their job or because they often do it.
- allegheny mountains — a mountain range in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia: part of the Appalachian system; rising from 600 m (2000 ft) to over 1440 m (4800 ft)
- alternative history — a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
- alternative society — a society or social group that espouses values different from those of the established social order.
- analytic philosophy — a 20th-cent. philosophic movement characterized by its method of analyzing concepts and statements in the light of common experience and ordinary language so as to eliminate confusions of thought and resolve many traditional philosophical problems
- analytic psychology — the system of psychology developed by C. G. Jung as a variant of psychoanalysis
- anarcho-syndicalism — syndicalism.
- anarcho-syndicalist — syndicalism.
- 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.
- apollonius dyscolus — died a.d. c140, Greek grammarian.
- 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.
- asperger's syndrome — a form of autism in which the person affected has limited but obsessive interests, and has difficulty relating to other people
- assault and battery — Assault and battery is the crime of attacking someone and causing them physical harm.
- assistant secretary — a person who assists a secretary in their work
- bacillary dysentery — shigellosis.
- balance of payments — A country's balance of payments is the difference, over a period of time, between the payments it makes to other countries for imports and the payments it receives from other countries for exports.
- balloon angioplasty — angioplasty in which a balloon catheter is moved to a blocked area of a blood vessel where the balloon is inflated to expand or force open the vessel
- 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
- bloodstock industry — the breeding and training of racehorses
- bloody-nosed beetle — a beetle, Timarcha tenebricosa, that exudes bright red blood when alarmed: family Chrysomelidae
- blot one's copybook — to spoil one's reputation by making a mistake, offending against social customs, etc
- 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
- bug tracking system — (programming) (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.
- by leaps and bounds — with unexpectedly rapid progess
- by one's bootstraps — by one's own efforts; unaided
- canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- 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.
- catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
- cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
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