19-letter words containing y, a, f
- 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.
- affective psychosis — a severe mental disorder characterized by extreme moods of either depression or mania
- alfred thayer mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
- antimony trisulfide — a black or orange-red crystalline compound, Sb2S3, used as a pigment, in pyrotechnics and matches, for fireproofing fabrics and paper, etc.
- aqueduct of sylvius — a canal in the midbrain, connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.
- army of the potomac — Union forces, trained and organized by Gen. George B. McClellan, that guarded Washington, D.C., against a Confederate invasion across the Potomac and fought battles in the eastern sector during the Civil War.
- artificial daylight — artificial light having approximately the same spectral characteristics as natural daylight
- asymmetric war-fare — warfare in which opposing groups or nations have unequal military resources, and the weaker opponent uses unconventional weapons and tactics, as terrorism, to exploit the vulnerabilities of the enemy.
- 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.
- blackbelly rosefish — a reddish scorpionfish, Helicolenus dactylopterus, inhabiting the deep waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
- captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
- catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel
- crystallized fruits — fruits that are covered in sugar which is melted and then allowed to harden
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
- deacetyltransferase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups, especially from a lysine residue of a histone.
- deflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- dictionary of names — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- engineering factory — a factory where engineering products are made
- entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
- expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
- fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- farnesyltransferase — One of the three enzymes in the prenyltransferase group, believed to play an important role in development of progeria and various cancers.
- fault tree analysis — (programming) A form of safety analysis that assesses hardware safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures.
- feast one's eyes on — to look at with pleasure or admiration
- february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
- february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
- feel strongly about — to have decided opinions concerning
- fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
- fertility treatment — the application of any of various methods or procedures to a woman or man to increase the woman's chances of conceiving a baby
- feynman, richard p. — Richard P. Feynman
- finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
- flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- four-o'clock family — the plant family Nyctaginaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having colored, petallike bracts beneath petalless flowers and winged or grooved dry fruit, and including the bougainvillea and four-o'clock.
- fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- free-market economy — an economy based on the free market system
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
- general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
- go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
- have a few too many — If you say that someone has had a few too many or has had a few, you mean that they have drunk too many alcoholic drinks.
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