19-letter words containing t, s, a, v, o
- 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.
- love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
- major seventh chord — a chord much used in modern music, esp jazz and pop, consisting of a major triad with an added major seventh above the root
- massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
- matthias i corvinus — ?1440–90, king of Hungary (1458–90): built up the most powerful kingdom in Central Europe. A patron of Renaissance art, he founded the Corvina library, one of the finest in Europe
- maturation division — a stage in meiosis during which the chromosomal number of the reproductive cell is reduced to one chromosome from each original chromosome pair.
- montezuma's revenge — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Mexico.
- 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
- most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
- motivation research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
- mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
- national serviceman — a soldier undertaking compulsory military service
- nominative absolute — a construction consisting in English of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in the nominative case followed by a predicate lacking a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence, as the play done in The play done, the audience left the theater.
- north valley stream — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- novell data systems — (company) A small computer hardware company building CP/M Z80-based systems. They later went on to become Novell, Inc. and develop Novell Netware.
- observation balloon — a balloon that is used for gathering information and reconnaissance purposes and spotting aircraft
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- outstation movement — the programme to resettle native Australians on their tribal lands
- over-sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
- palomar observatory — an astronomical observatory situated on Palomar Mountain in S California, having a 200-inch (508-cm) reflecting telescope and a 48-inch (122-cm) Schmidt telescope.
- pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.
- popular sovereignty — the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.
- postal savings bank — any of the savings banks formerly operated by local post offices and limited to small accounts.
- pre-order traversal — traversal
- private prosecution — a prosecution started by a private individual rather than by the police
- privatization issue — an issue of shares available for purchase by members of the public when a publicly owned organization is transferred to the private sector
- pseudo-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- pseudo-intransitive — denoting an occurrence of a normally transitive verb in which a direct object is not explicitly stated or forms the subject of the sentence, as in Margaret is cooking or these apples cook well
- radius of curvature — the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature at a point on a curve.
- rake over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- reactive depression — depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.
- reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
- resistance movement — a movement fighting (for freedom, etc), often secretly or illegally, against an invader in an occupied country or against the country's government, etc
- restorative justice — a theory and method in criminal justice in which it is arranged that the victim and the community receive restitution from the offender.
- reversible reaction — a reaction that, depending on ambient conditions, can proceed in either of two directions: the production of the reaction products from the reactants, or the production of the original reactants from the formed reaction products. Compare equilibrium (def 4).
- roosevelt corollary — a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
- sacrifice operative — a euphemistic term for a suicide bomber
- saturation coverage — news coverage (of an event, etc) that is very thorough in order not to miss any details
- segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
- selective attention — mental focus on sth in particular
- semipalmated plover — a New World plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, having a black ring around the chest and semipalmate feet, inhabiting beaches and salt marshes.
- sensory deprivation — the experimental or natural reduction of environmental stimuli, as by physical isolation or loss of eyesight, often leading to cognitive, perceptual, or behavioral changes, as disorientation, delusions, or panic.
- separation negative — Photography. a black-and-white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color image.
- seventh commandment — “Thou shalt not commit adultery”: seventh of the Ten Commandments.
- soviet central asia — the region of the former Soviet Union now occupied by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
- speculative fiction — a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
- stanford university — (education) A University in the city of Palo Alto, California, noted for work in computing, especially artificial intelligence. See SAIL.