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19-letter words containing u, y, s

  • the open university — (in Britain) a university founded in 1969 for mature students studying by television and radio lectures, correspondence courses, local counselling, and summer schools
  • theory of equations — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods of finding the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • to click your heels — If someone such as a soldier clicks their heels, they make a sound by knocking the heels of their shoes together when saluting or greeting someone.
  • to follow your nose — If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
  • to keep to yourself — If you keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.
  • to lick your wounds — If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
  • to lose your temper — If you lose your temper, you become so angry that you shout at someone or show in some other way that you are no longer in control of yourself.
  • to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • to strut your stuff — If you strut your stuff, you act in a proud way and show off.
  • to suck someone dry — If you say that someone is sucking something dry or milking it dry, you are criticizing them for taking all the good things from it until there is nothing left.
  • to wet your whistle — To wet your whistle means to have a drink.
  • tourette's syndrome — a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.
  • trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
  • twenty-six counties — the counties of the Republic of Ireland
  • ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
  • unconstitutionality — not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.
  • united presbyterian — a member of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, founded in Pittsburgh in 1858 by a union of two Presbyterian groups.
  • university entrance — an examination taken by pupils of postprimary schools
  • university hospital — a hospital that is affiliated with a university. University hospitals provide clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients
  • visual display unit — video display terminal. Abbreviation: VDU.
  • volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
  • welsh mountain pony — a small sturdy but graceful breed of pony used mostly for riding, originally from Wales
  • what possessed you? — If you ask what possessed someone to do something, you are emphasizing your great surprise that they have done something which you consider foolish or dangerous.
  • what's your poison? — what would you like to drink?
  • with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
  • with your eyes open — If you say that you did something with your eyes open or with your eyes wide open, you mean that you knew about the problems and difficulties that you were likely to have.
  • yablonovy mountains — a mountain range in Siberia. Highest peak: 1680 m (5512 ft)
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
  • your hands are tied — If you say that your hands are tied, you mean that something is preventing you from acting in the way that you want to.
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