19-letter words containing u, a, e
- antarctic peninsula — the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south
- anti-fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- anti-fundamentalist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- 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 of perga — ?261–?190 bc, Greek mathematician, remembered for his treatise on conic sections
- applied linguistics — linguistic theory as applied to such fields as lexicography, psychology, the teaching of reading, the creation of orthographies, and especially language teaching.
- appointments bureau — an office responsible for filling appointments
- apres moi le deluge — after me the deluge
- aqueduct of sylvius — a canal in the midbrain, connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.
- arkwright furniture — late medieval English furniture of simple construction.
- armed response unit — (in Britain) a unit of police officers who are trained to use firearms in situations where unarmed police officers would be in danger
- articulated vehicle — a large vehicle (esp a lorry) made in two separate sections, a tractor and a trailer, connected by a pivoted bar
- artificial language — an invented language, esp one intended as an international medium of communication or for use with computers
- ask for a signature — If you ask for a signature, you ask someone to write their name, in their own characteristic way, on a document.
- assault and battery — Assault and battery is the crime of attacking someone and causing them physical harm.
- at bus architecture — Industry Standard Architecture
- at your convenience — at a time suitable to you
- attractive nuisance — Law. a doctrine of tort law under which a person who creates or permits to exist on his or her land a dangerous condition attractive to children, as an unfenced swimming pool, is liable for their resulting injuries, even though the injured are trespassers.
- audio response unit — a device that enables a computer to give a spoken response by generating sounds similar to human speech.
- augmented cognition — the study of the augmenting of human mental functions by computer programs
- augsburg confession — the statement of beliefs and doctrines of the Lutherans, formulated by Melanchthon and endorsed by the Lutheran princes, which was presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 and which became the chief creed of the Lutheran Church.
- auricular appendage — auricle (def 1b).
- auricular-appendage — Anatomy. the projecting outer portion of the ear; pinna. Also called auricular appendage. an ear-shaped appendage projecting from each atrium of the heart. (loosely) the atrium.
- auriculoventricular — atrioventricular.
- australian tea tree — a shrubby Australian tree, Leptospermum laevigatum, of the myrtle family, having lance-shaped leaves and white, bell-shaped flowers.
- author's alteration — a correction or change made in typeset copy that is not a correction of an error introduced by the compositor. Abbreviation: AA, A.A., a.a., aa.
- autoerotic asphyxia — asphyxia caused by intentionally strangling oneself while masturbating in order to intensify the orgasm through reduced oxygen flow to the brain.
- ave regina coelorum — a Latin hymn in honor of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven.
- backward somersault — a somersault performed in a backward direction with the legs leading the rest of the body
- balfour declaration — the statement made by Arthur Balfour in 1917 of British support for the setting up of a national home for the Jews in Palestine, provided that the rights of "existing non-Jewish communities" in Palestine could be safeguarded
- bang for one's buck — value for money
- bankruptcy petition — an official request for protection under bankruptcy laws, which initiates bankruptcy proceedings
- barometric pressure — atmospheric pressure as indicated by a barometer
- batterie de cuisine — cooking utensils collectively; pots and pans, etc
- battle of the bulge — (in World War II) the final major German counteroffensive in 1944 when the Allied forces were pushed back into NE Belgium; the Germans were repulsed by Jan 1945
- battle-ground state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
- battles of bull run — two battles fought at Manassas Junction near a stream named Bull Run, during the American Civil War (July, 1861 and August, 1862), in both of which the Federal army was routed by the Confederates
- baudotbetical order — (algorithm) /baw do bet' i k*l/ Sorted into an order where numerics and special characters are intermixed by sorting a 5-bit Baudot code file ignoring the numeric shift and unshift codes.
- be burnt to a crisp — If something is burnt to a crisp, it is completely burnt.
- beat about the bush — to avoid the point at issue; prevaricate
- beauty preparations — the cosmetics, creams etc used to improve someone's beauty
- beggar-my-neighbour — a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
- behavioural science — the application of scientific methods to the study of the behaviour of organisms
- below par/under par — If you feel below par or under par, you feel tired and unable to perform as well as you normally do.
- beta-naphthyl group — See under naphthyl.
- bilingual education — schooling in which those not fluent in the standard or national language are taught in their own language.
- black forest gateau — a chocolate sponge cake containing morello cherries and whipped cream, with a topping of chocolate icing
- black-billed cuckoo — a black-billed North American cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, that, unlike most cuckoos, constructs its own nest and rears its own young.
- blue stellar object — any of a class of blue celestial objects, at one time thought to be stars, that do not emit appreciable radio waves. Abbreviation: BSO.