19-letter words containing pa
- physically impaired — with reduced or weakened physical capacity
- postage and packing — the cost of packing and mailing an item bought by post
- puncture repair kit — set of tools for patching a bicycle tyre
- rancho palos verdes — a town in SW California.
- reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
- rock-paper-scissors — a method of selecting, for example, which of two people perform a task: each person simultaneously makes one of three hand gestures representing a rock, a sheet of paper, and a pair of scissors respectively. Each gesture defeats one and is defeated by one of the other two: rock defeats scissors but is defeated by paper; paper defeats rock but is defeated by scissors. The person whose gesture defeats the other is selected
- saint patrick's day — March 17, observed by the Irish in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
- san bernardino pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in SE Switzerland. Highest point: 2062 m (6766 ft)
- santa rosa de copan — a town in W Honduras: site of extensive Mayan ruins.
- sao paulo de luanda — Luanda.
- scare the pants off — to scare extremely
- semipalmated plover — a New World plover, Charadrius semipalmatus, having a black ring around the chest and semipalmate feet, inhabiting beaches and salt marshes.
- separation negative — Photography. a black-and-white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color image.
- shipping department — a department in a company responsible for arranging, receiving, recording, and sending shipments of goods
- short-stay car park — a car park where a car can be left for a relatively short time
- smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
- smooth the path/way — If you smooth the path or smooth the way towards something, you make it easier or more likely to happen.
- south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
- spaghetti bolognese — Italian dish of pasta and tomato sauce
- spanish inquisition — the Inquisition in Spain, under state control from 1480 to 1834, marked by the extreme severity and cruelty of its proceedings in the 16th century.
- spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
- spare a thought for — If you spare a thought for an unfortunate person, you make an effort to think sympathetically about them and their bad luck.
- special partnership — limited partnership.
- stationers' company — a company or guild of the city of London composed of booksellers, printers, dealers in writing materials, etc., incorporated in 1557.
- subnuclear particle — any of the elementary particles, including those that do not exist in stable matter but appear as a result of high-energy collisions of other particles or nuclei.
- sympathetic contact — behavior toward an individual based on the individual's personal makeup rather than on his or her group membership.
- take someone's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
- the panhandle state — a nickname for West Virginia
- the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
- the pickwick papers — a novel written by the English novelist Charles Dickens(1812--70)
- transparent context — an expression in which any term may be replaced by another with the same reference without changing its truth-value
- versa module europa — (hardware) (VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the Eurocard standard. VME was introduced in 1981 by Motorola, Philips, Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the IEEE standard 1014-1987.
- want no part of sth — If you say that you want no part of something, you mean that you do not want to be involved in it at all.
- waterglass painting — stereochromy.
- whispering campaign — the organized spreading of insinuations or rumors to destroy the reputation of a person, organization, etc.
- wraparound mortgage — a mortgage, as a second mortgage, that includes payments on a previous mortgage that continues in effect.
- zero and add packed — (language) (ZAP) An IBM 360/370 assembly language instruction used when performing packed arithmatic to initialise an accumulator.