19-letter words containing no
- hold no terrors for — If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.
- holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- hydroxydaunorubicin — Doxorubicin.
- if i'm not mistaken — You use expressions such as if I'm not mistaken and unless I'm very much mistaken as a polite way of emphasizing the statement you are making, especially when you are confident that it is correct.
- immunocytochemistry — the detection of chemical components of cells by means of antibodies coupled to substances that can be made visible.
- immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
- immunoprecipitation — the separation of an antigen from a solution by the formation of a large complex with its specific antibody.
- in definite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
- inglenook fireplace — a large fireplace with a space on either side
- inorganic chemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds.
- interdenominational — occurring between, involving, or common to different religious denominations.
- ionotropic receptor — a receptor that functions directly by opening ion channels that enable specific ions to stream in an out of the cell
- knock someone bandy — to amaze or astound
- knock the socks off — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knock them/'em dead — To knock them dead means to impress people a great deal, especially with your appearance.
- knock-down-drag-out — marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
- knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
- know a thing or two — be experienced in sth
- know better than to — not to be so stupid as to
- know one's own mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
- lose no opportunity — If you say that someone loses no opportunity to do or say a particular thing, you are emphasizing that they do it or say it whenever it is possible.
- lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix) The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
- luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
- magnetic north pole — the point on Earth to where a compass needle points, and which is situated near the geographic North Pole. However, with time, the exact location can vary.
- make no bones about — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- maraschino cherries — cherries in a syrup flavored with maraschino or, now usually, imitation maraschino
- melodic minor scale — minor scale (def 2).
- menominee whitefish — round whitefish.
- midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
- minor seventh chord — a chord consisting of a minor triad with an added minor seventh above the root
- molecular astronomy — the branch of astronomy dealing with the study of molecules in space.
- monoclonal antibody — antibody produced by a laboratory-grown cell clone, either of a hybridoma or a virus-transformed lymphocyte, that is more abundant and uniform than natural antibody and is able to bind specifically to a single site on almost any chosen antigen or reveal previously unknown antigen sites: used as an analytic tool in scientific research and medical diagnosis and potentially important in the treatment of certain diseases. Abbreviation: MAb.
- more often than not — usually
- multinomial theorem — an expression of a power of a sum in terms of powers of the addends, a generalization of the binomial theorem.
- narcotics anonymous — an organization that helps drug users recover from drug addiction
- new economic policy — (in the Soviet Union) a program in effect from 1921 to 1928, reviving the wage system and private ownership of some factories and businesses, and abandoning grain requisitions.
- no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
- no strings attached — without conditions
- no-write allocation — (memory management) A cache policy where only processor reads are cached, thus avoiding the need for write-back or write-through.
- nominative absolute — a construction consisting in English of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in the nominative case followed by a predicate lacking a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence, as the play done in The play done, the audience left the theater.
- non causa pro causa — the fallacy of giving as a reason for a conclusion a proposition not actually relevant to that conclusion.
- non-confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- non-confrontational — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
- non-contemporaneous — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- non-interventionism — abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions.
- non-standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.