19-letter words containing and
- sackcloth and ashes — a public display of extreme grief, remorse, or repentance
- sale and lease back — leaseback.
- samoa standard time — a standard time used in the zone which includes American Samoa, corresponding to the mean solar time of the 165th meridian west of Greenwich, England: it is eleven hours behind Greenwich time
- san clemente island — an island off the coast of S California, in the Santa Barbara (Channel) Islands. 24 miles (38 km) long.
- san fernando valley — valley in SW Calif., partly in NW Los Angeles: c. 260 sq mi (673 sq km)
- san salvador island — an island in the central Bahamas: the first land in the New World seen by Christopher Columbus (1492). Area: 156 sq km (60 sq miles)
- sandra day o'connor — Frank (Michael Donovan) 1903–66, Irish writer.
- sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
- sao paulo de luanda — Luanda.
- self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- seventh commandment — “Thou shalt not commit adultery”: seventh of the Ten Commandments.
- shucking and jiving — misleading or deceptive talk or behavior, as to give a false impression.
- smite hip and thigh — to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
- st. kitts and nevis — country in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies, consisting of two islands (St. Kitts & Nevis): formerly a British colony, it became an independent state (1983) & a member of the Commonwealth: c. 101 sq mi (262 sq km); pop. 41,000; cap. Basseterre
- stand in good stead — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- stand on one's head — If you stand on your head, you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground.
- standard atmosphere — an arbitrarily determined vertical distribution of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and density, assumed to have physical constants and conforming to parametric equations, used for calculations in ballistics, the design of pressure altimeters, etc.
- standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
- standing martingale — martingale (def 1).
- straight and narrow — the way of virtuous or proper conduct: After his release from prison, he resolved to follow the straight and narrow.
- submandibular gland — either of a pair of salivary glands located one on each side of and beneath the lower jaw.
- sun-and-planet gear — a planetary epicyclic gear train.
- sweetness and light — extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability.
- take sb/sth in hand — If you take something or someone in hand, you take control or responsibility over them, especially in order to improve them.
- talleyrand-perigord — Charles Maurice de [sharl moh-rees duh] /ʃarl moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), Prince de Bénévent [duh bey-ney-vahn] /də beɪ neɪˈvɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1754–1838, French statesman.
- the fat of the land — the best that is obtainable
- the high and mighty — people who are considered very important
- the panhandle state — a nickname for West Virginia
- three-point landing — an aircraft landing in which the two wheels of the main landing gear and the tail or nose wheel touch the ground simultaneously.
- through and through — in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping. Sun came through the window.
- throw in one's hand — (in cards) to concede defeat by putting one's cards down
- time on one's hands — an interval with nothing to do
- tired and emotional — slightly drunk
- to be born and bred — Someone who was born and bred in a place was born there and grew up there.
- to grin and bear it — If you grin and bear it, you accept a difficult or unpleasant situation without complaining because you know there is nothing you can do to make things better.
- to have and to hold — to possess for life
- trinidad and tobago — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- turn and turn about — one after another; alternately
- vulvovaginal glands — the small gland on either side of the lower part of the vagina
- wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
- wash one's hands of — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- white-handed gibbon — a gibbon, Hylobates lar, inhabiting Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and northern Sumatra, varying from black to light buff in color, and having white hands and feet: an endangered species.
- wood-and-water joey — a person employed to carry out menial tasks
- 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.
- zero and add packed — (language) (ZAP) An IBM 360/370 assembly language instruction used when performing packed arithmatic to initialise an accumulator.