19-letter words containing ial
- preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
- preproduction trial — a trial to test a prototype of a product before the product goes into full-scale production
- radiation potential — the potential in volts that must be applied to an atom or molecule to cause it to emit radiation at one of its characteristic frequencies.
- reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
- reindustrialization — the revitalization of an industry or industrial society through government aid and tax incentives, modernization of factories and machinery, etc.
- reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
- rickettsial disease — any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease
- secretarial college — a college where people are trained to be secretaries
- senatorial courtesy — the practice in the U.S. Senate of confirming only those presidential appointees approved by both senators from the state of the appointee, or by the senior senator of the president's party.
- senatorial district — one of a fixed number of districts into which a state of the U.S. is divided, each electing one member to the state senate.
- sentential calculus — the branch of symbolic logic dealing with the logical relationships between statements insofar as they can be analyzed into conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations of more elementary statements.
- sentential function — an expression that contains one or more variables and becomes meaningful when suitable constant terms are substituted for them.
- sequential analysis — the analysis of data obtained from a sample the size of which is not fixed in advance, but is selected based on the outcome of the sampling as it proceeds.
- sequential scanning — a system of scanning a television picture along the lines in numerical sequence
- social anthropology — study of human culture
- social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
- social organization — the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.
- social security act — a law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation, and federal grants for state welfare programs.
- socialized medicine — any of various systems to provide the entire population with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health services.
- special air service — a regiment in the British Army specializing in clandestine operations
- special partnership — limited partnership.
- specialized subject — a school or university subject that concentrates on a particular field of knowledge
- streaming potential — the potential produced in the walls of a porous membrane or a capillary tube by forcing a liquid through it.
- tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
- the social register — a directory, now published annually, of the families who are considered to form the country's social élite
- trifacial neuralgia — tic douloureux.