19-letter words that end in on
- it stands to reason — it is logical
- jockey for position — If someone is jockeying for position, they are using whatever methods they can in order to get into a better position than their rivals.
- judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
- keep one's shirt on — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
- lay one's finger on — to indicate, identify, or locate accurately
- lift the curtain on — to begin
- limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
- line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
- linear polarization — polarization of light in which the vibrations are confined to a single plane, that of the wave front.
- lipschitz condition — the property of a function on a closed interval such that the absolute value of the difference in functional values at any two points in the interval is less than a constant times the absolute value of the difference of the points raised to some positive power m, called the order.
- lose one's shirt on — to lose all one has on (a horse, etc)
- loss on translation — A loss on translation is the amount of money that is lost by a company by converting another currency used in a transaction into the functional currency of the company.
- louis ii de bourbon — Condé, Prince de.
- lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
- machine instruction — (programming) The smallest element of a machine code program.
- machine translation — changing language of a text by computer
- magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
- malleable cast iron — white cast iron that has been malleablized.
- managed competition — a strategy for healthcare delivery whereby costs are reduced by fostering competition between providers of managed-care contracts for large employers.
- manual transmission — an automotive transmission in which the driver shifts gears manually.
- market segmentation — the division of a market into identifiable groups, esp to improve the effectiveness of a marketing strategy
- massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
- maturation division — a stage in meiosis during which the chromosomal number of the reproductive cell is reduced to one chromosome from each original chromosome pair.
- means of production — resources: equipment, workers
- medical examination — physical examination
- membership function — fuzzy subset
- mercator projection — a conformal projection on which any rhumb line is represented as a straight line, used chiefly in navigation, though the scale varies with latitude and areal size and the shapes of large areas are greatly distorted.
- metropolitanization — to make metropolitan.
- midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
- military pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different events, a 300-meter freestyle swim, a 4000-meter cross-country run, a 5000-meter equestrian steeplechase, épée fencing, and pistol target-shooting at 25 meters, the winner being the contestant with the highest total score.
- mine of information — source of great knowledge
- mischaracterization — The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way.
- missionary position — a position for sexual intercourse in which the couple lies face to face with the male on top.
- most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
- most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
- mutual masturbation — the act of two or more people masturbating each other
- national convention — French History. the legislature of France 1792–95.
- necessary condition — prerequisite
- network termination — (NT, NT1) A device connecting the customer's data or telephone equipment to the local ISDN exchange carrier's line. The NT device provides a connection for terminal equipment (TE) and terminal adaptor (TA) equipment to the local loop.
- new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
- no-write allocation — (memory management) A cache policy where only processor reads are cached, thus avoiding the need for write-back or write-through.
- non-standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- normal distribution — a theoretical frequency distribution represented by a normal curve.
- observation balloon — a balloon that is used for gathering information and reconnaissance purposes and spotting aircraft
- on no consideration — for no reason whatsoever; never
- once in a blue moon — very rarely; almost never
- oral interpretation — the study and practice of vocally expressing the meaning of written compositions, especially of literature.
- orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
- out of the question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.