19-letter words containing s, p
- expert systems ltd. — (company) (ESL) Distributors of ESLPDPRO. Adderss: Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4GA. Telephone +44 (865) 784474.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- family-sized packet — a large packet
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
- finger on the pulse — If you have your finger on the pulse of something, you know all the latest opinions or developments concerning it.
- first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
- first world problem — a fairly minor problem, frustrating situation, or complaint associated with a relatively high standard of living, as opposed to the more serious problems associated with poverty: I’m bored with all my electronic gadgets—such a first world problem!
- first-past-the-post — A first-past-the-post system for choosing members of parliament or other representatives is one in which the candidate who gets most votes wins.
- floppy (disk) drive — the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on floppy disks
- flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
- fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
- fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
- 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
- from pillar to post — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
- gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
- 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.
- general partnership — a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
- germander speedwell — a speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys, having blue flowers.
- get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
- gigabits per second — (unit) (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
- give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
- gloucester old spot — a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley
- gorzow wielkopolski — a city in NW Poland, on the Warta River.
- graphic workstation — (graphics, computer) A workstation specifically configured for graphics works such as image manipulation, bitmap graphics ("paint"), and vector graphics ("draw") type applications. Such work requires a powerful CPU and a high resolution display. A graphic workstation is very similar to a CAD workstation and, given the typical specifications of personal computers currently available in 1999, the distinctions are very blurred and are more likely to depend on availability of specific software than any detailed hardware requirements.
- grasshopper sparrow — a brown and white North American sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum, having a buffy breast and a buzzing insectlike song.
- grasshopper warbler — a Eurasian warbler Locustella naevia
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
- gross profit margin — A gross profit margin is a measure of the profitability of a company, that is calculated by dividing gross profit by net sales.
- grosse pointe farms — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
- harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
- health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
- hepatoportal system — a vascular arrangement in vertebrates through which blood is transported into the liver from capillaries of the stomach, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, and intestines.
- herpes zoster virus — a type of herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- high blood pressure — elevation of the arterial blood pressure or a condition resulting from it; hypertension. Abbreviation: HBP.
- high-energy physics — the branch of particle physics that deals with the collisions of particles accelerated to such high energies that new elementary particles are created by the collisions.