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19-letter words containing ide

  • pride-of-california — a shrubby plant, Lathyrus splendens, of the legume family, native to southern California, having showy clusters of pale rose-pink, violet, or magenta flowers and large, smooth, beaked pods.
  • residence insurance — Residence insurance is insurance coverage against damage to a building in which you live.
  • ride roughshod over — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
  • self identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • self-identification — identification of oneself with some other person or thing.
  • semidetached binary — a pair of stars that are so close together that mass transfer occurs from one to the other
  • sidereal hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the hour circle passing through the vernal equinox and the hour circle of a celestial body.
  • spider-hunting wasp — any solitary wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea, having a slender elongated body: the fast-running female hunts spiders as a food store for her larvae
  • strontium hydroxide — a white, slightly water-soluble powder, Sr(OH) 2 , or its crystalline octahydrate (strontium hydrate) used chiefly in the refining of beet sugar.
  • subjective idealism — a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.
  • tamper-evident seal — A tamper-evident seal is a sealing device designed to reveal if the opening of a container has been interfered with.
  • thorn in one's side — a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
  • turn sth inside out — If someone turns a place inside out or upside down, they search it very thoroughly and usually make it very untidy.
  • under consideration — being deliberated
  • video tape recorder — a device for recording television programs on magnetic tape for delayed transmission or for storage.
  • vinylidene chloride — a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid, C 2 H 2 Cl, that is copolymerized chiefly with vinyl chloride to form saran.
  • wide-angle glaucoma — open-angle glaucoma. See under glaucoma.
  • world wide web worm — (web)   (WWWW) One of the first automatic indexing tools for the web, being developed in September 1994 by Oliver McBryan <[email protected]> at the University of Colorado. The worm created a database of 300,000 multimedia objects which can be obtained or searched for keywords via the web.
  • xenon tetrafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 4 , prepared by heating a gaseous mixture of fluorine and xenon.
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