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19-letter words containing t, i, s, u

  • bloodstock industry — the breeding and training of racehorses
  • blue-breasted quail — a small, brightly colored quail, Coturnix chinensis, of southern Asia and Australia, widely kept as a cage bird.
  • blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
  • bordering countries — countries that share a border with a particular country
  • breathing apparatus — an apparatus, usually consisting of tanks of air or oxygen and a mouthpiece, that enables the wearer to breath in difficult conditions such as a smoke-filled building
  • bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
  • brightline spectrum — the spectrum of an incandescent substance appearing on a spectrogram as one or more bright lines against a dark background.
  • brimstone butterfly — a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
  • british summer time — British Summer Time is a period in the spring and summer during which the clocks are put forward, so that people can have an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
  • brush-tailed possum — any of several widely-distributed Australian possums of the genus Trichosurus
  • 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.
  • business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
  • butabarbital sodium — a barbiturate, C 10 H 15 N 2 NaO 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • cairngorm mountains — a mountain range of NE Scotland: part of the Grampians. Highest peak: Ben Macdui, 1309 m (4296 ft); designated a national park in 2003
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
  • captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
  • cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
  • celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
  • centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
  • ch'in shih huang ti — Shih Huang Ti.
  • chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
  • class action (suit) — a legal action brought by one or more persons on behalf of themselves and a much larger group, all of whom have the same grounds for action
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • 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.
  • collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
  • communications port — (hardware, communications)   A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
  • communications zone — the area behind the combat zone
  • communion of saints — the spiritual fellowship of all true Christians, living and dead
  • communist manifesto — a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles
  • community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
  • compromise solution — a solution to a problem reached by compromise
  • computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
  • conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
  • constitution mirror — an oblong Chippendale mirror, usually of mahogany or walnut with gilt detail, having a frame with a fanciful outline emphasized by a raised molding that is topped with a scrolled broken pediment with a central finial, often in the form of a bird.
  • construction worker — a person who works in the construction industry, esp one engaged in manual work
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
  • consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
  • consumer protection — laws and policies designed to protect consumers against unfair trade and credit practices
  • consumer resistance — the unwillingness of consumers to adopt a particular product, service, or change
  • contagious abortion — brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
  • continental cuisine — a style of cooking that includes the better-known dishes of various western European countries.
  • continuation school — a school providing extension courses for people who have left school in the elementary grades to go to work.
  • continuous creation — the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe
  • continuous function — (loosely) a mathematical function such that a small change in the independent variable, or point of the domain, produces only a small change in the value of the function.
  • continuous spectrum — a spectrum that contains or appears to contain all wavelengths but not spectrum lines over a wide portion of its range. The emission spectrum of incandescent solids is continuous; bremsstrahlung spectra consisting of a large number of lines may appear continuous
  • contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
  • contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
  • corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
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