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19-letter words that end in s

  • republic of letters — the collective body of literary people.
  • restriction enzymes — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of DNA molecules at specific sites: used for gene splicing in recombinant DNA technology and for chromosome mapping.
  • reverse the charges — If you reverse the charges when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
  • rhythmic gymnastics — a form of gymnastics involving movements using hand apparatus such as balls, hoops, and ribbons
  • ring-a-ring-a-roses — a children's game in which the players sing a song, at the end of which they all fall down
  • risk excess of loss — Risk excess of loss is a type of reinsurance that is given to an insurer to protect against a single loss or risk incurred at a specified amount.
  • 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
  • saccharofarinaceous — pertaining to or consisting of sugar and meal.
  • sackcloth and ashes — a public display of extreme grief, remorse, or repentance
  • saint simon zelotes — one of the 12 apostles, who had probably belonged to the Zealot party before becoming a Christian (Luke 6:15). Owing to a misinterpretation of two similar Aramaic words he is also, but mistakenly, called the Canaanite (Matthew 10:4). Feast day: Oct 28 or May 10
  • san bernardino pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in SE Switzerland. Highest point: 2062 m (6766 ft)
  • san francisco peaks — a mountain mass in N Arizona: highest point in the state, Humphrey's Peak, 12,611 feet (3845 meters).
  • sao jose dos campos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
  • secondary processes — the conscious mental activity and logical thinking controlled by the ego and influenced by environmental demands.
  • secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • seleucia tracheotis — an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)
  • sell like hot cakes — a pancake or griddlecake.
  • sentential calculus — the branch of symbolic logic dealing with the logical relationships between statements insofar as they can be analyzed into conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations of more elementary statements.
  • sequential analysis — the analysis of data obtained from a sample the size of which is not fixed in advance, but is selected based on the outcome of the sampling as it proceeds.
  • shoestring potatoes — potatoes cut into long, very narrow strips and fried crisp in deep fat
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • short-tail business — Short-tail business is insurance business where it is known that claims will be made and settled quickly.
  • significant figures — the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
  • silk-screen process — Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
  • simulation analysis — (language, simulation)   (SIMAN) A simulation language, especially for manufacturing systems, developed by C. Dennis Pegden in 1983.
  • solid-state physics — the branch of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter, especially solids; the study of the electromagnetic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of solids.
  • someone's writ runs — someone has power or authority of a specified kind or scope
  • sow one's wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • speaking in tongues — a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity.
  • specific characters — the persistent features that distinguish one species from all others
  • splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
  • squirrel-tail grass — any of various grasses having long fruiting stalks.
  • st. anthony's cross — a T -shaped cross.
  • st. augustine grass — a low, mat-forming grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum, of the southern U.S. and tropical America, that is cultivated as a lawn grass.
  • st. kitts and nevis — country in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies, consisting of two islands (St. Kitts & Nevis): formerly a British colony, it became an independent state (1983) & a member of the Commonwealth: c. 101 sq mi (262 sq km); pop. 41,000; cap. Basseterre
  • stagnation mastitis — caked breast.
  • steamroller tactics — repressive tactics
  • stick to one's guns — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • straits settlements — a former British crown colony in SE Asia: included the settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca, and Labuan.
  • subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
  • succession of crops — the continuous cultivation of a crop throughout a season by successive plantings or by the use of varieties with different rates of growth.
  • swallow one's words — to retract a statement, argument, etc, often in humiliating circumstances
  • system requirements — specifications needed to run a program
  • take to one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
  • take up the cudgels — If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
  • tehachapi mountains — a transverse (E–W) mountain range in S central California. Highest peak, Double Mountain, 7982 feet (2433 meters).
  • the (three) unities — the three principles of dramatic construction derived by French neoclassicists from Aristotle's Poetics, holding that a play should have one unified plot (unity of action) and that all the action should occur within one day (unity of time) and be limited to a single locale (unity of place)
  • the best of friends — If two people are the best of friends, they are close friends, especially when they have had a disagreement or fight in the past.
  • the hampshire downs — a range of low chalk hills that crosses Hampshire in S England
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