19-letter words containing si
- confession of faith — a formal public avowal of religious beliefs
- consumer resistance — the unwillingness of consumers to adopt a particular product, service, or change
- continental cuisine — a style of cooking that includes the better-known dishes of various western European countries.
- conversion disorder — a psychological disorder in which severe physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis appear with no apparent physical cause
- convulsive disorder — any of various types of epilepsy.
- coronary thrombosis — A coronary thrombosis is the same as a coronary.
- corrosive sublimate — mercuric chloride
- counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- counter-proposition — a proposition made in place of or in opposition to a preceding one.
- county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
- cracked compression — Cracked compression is a separation process for separating hydrocarbons further, with an increase in the pressure of the cracked gas.
- deathbed confession — a confession that somebody makes just before he or she dies, usually relating to some long concealed crime or secret
- deflate compression — deflate
- deoxyribonucleoside — a compound composed of deoxyribose and either a purine or a pyrimidine.
- design in real time — (programming) (Dirt) A user interface builder for the X Window System by R. Hesketh.
- direct-vision prism — Amici prism.
- discussion document — a document that puts forward some ideas or opinions that might form the basis of a discussion of a particular topic
- dispersion relation — the relationship between the angular frequency (ω;) of a wave and the magnitude of its wave vector (k). Thus the wave's speed is ω/k
- display advertising — display ads taken collectively.
- distance university — a degree-granting institution operating wholly or mainly by correspondence courses for students not resident on or within commuting distance of the campus.
- diversified farming — the practice of producing a variety of crops or animals, or both, on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single commodity.
- diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
- do not disturb sign — A do not disturb sign is a sign that a guest in a hotel hangs outside their room to tell other people not to knock the door or enter.
- double-density disk — a disk with more than the normal capacity for storage
- dred scott decision — Barbara Ann, 1928–2012, Canadian figure skater.
- drill-down analysis — drill down
- dynamic positioning — Dynamic positioning is the use of computers to control the position of a semi-submersible rig.
- electrophysiologist — A physiologist whose speciality is electrophysiology.
- end of transmission — (character) (EOT) The mnemonic for ASCII character 4.
- european commission — the executive body of the European Union formed in 1967, which initiates action in the EU and mediates between member governments
- exclusion principle — Pauli exclusion principle
- executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- extensible database — (database) A DBMS that allows access to data from remote sources as if the remote data were part of the database.
- fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- fault tree analysis — (programming) A form of safety analysis that assesses hardware safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures.
- female circumcision — clitoridectomy.
- foregone conclusion — an inevitable conclusion or result.
- forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
- free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
- free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
- functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
- gel electrophoresis — a technique for separating protein molecules of varying sizes in a mixture by moving them through a block of gel, as of agarose or polyacrylamide, by means of an electric field, with smaller molecules moving faster and therefore farther than larger ones.
- gender reassignment — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- general anaesthesia — the use of a general anaesthetic