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19-letter words containing y, e, n, i, s

  • diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
  • double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
  • double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
  • energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
  • english toy spaniel — breed of dog
  • evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
  • exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
  • expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
  • 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.
  • 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 eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
  • free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
  • give one's eyeteeth — Dentistry. a canine tooth of the upper jaw: so named from its position under the eye.
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • hester lynch piozziHester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
  • high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
  • high-energy physics — the branch of particle physics that deals with the collisions of particles accelerated to such high energies that new elementary particles are created by the collisions.
  • highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
  • holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
  • hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
  • hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
  • hyperfine structure — the splitting of the lines of an atomic spectrum, produced by the angular momentum of the nucleus of the atom.
  • hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
  • hyperresponsiveness — An abnormally increased responsiveness, especially that due to hypersensitivity or hyperreactivity.
  • hysterosalpingogram — An X-ray image taken during hysterosalpingography.
  • immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
  • imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
  • impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
  • in one's mind's eye — pictured within the mind; imagined or remembered vividly
  • in this day and age — these days
  • incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
  • infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
  • inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
  • interdisciplinarity — Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.
  • intermediate system — (networking)   (IS) An Open Systems Interconnection system which performs network layer forwarding. It is analogous to an IP router.
  • international style — the general form of architecture developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and others, characterized by simple geometric forms, large untextured, often white, surfaces, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.
  • isobutyl propionate — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 14 O 2 , used chiefly as a paint, varnish, and lacquer solvent.
  • jamaica honeysuckle — a climbing vine, Passiflora laurifolia, of tropical America, having red-spotted white flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide, with a white and violet-colored crown, and edible yellow fruit.
  • jockey for position — If someone is jockeying for position, they are using whatever methods they can in order to get into a better position than their rivals.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
  • lateral line system — a system of sensory organs in fishes and aquatic amphibians consisting of a series of cells on the head and along the sides of the body that detect pressure changes and vibrations
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