19-letter words containing ant
- instantaneous speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the rate of change of position with respect to time at a particular point. It is measured in metres per second, miles per hour, etc
- jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
- junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
- land of enchantment — New Mexico (used as a nickname).
- lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
- main-topgallantmast — the mast next above the main-topmast.
- manufacturing plant — factory
- monoclonal antibody — antibody produced by a laboratory-grown cell clone, either of a hybridoma or a virus-transformed lymphocyte, that is more abundant and uniform than natural antibody and is able to bind specifically to a single site on almost any chosen antigen or reveal previously unknown antigen sites: used as an analytic tool in scientific research and medical diagnosis and potentially important in the treatment of certain diseases. Abbreviation: MAb.
- mother-in-law plant — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- motorway restaurant — a restaurant on a motorway
- nuclear power plant — factory that generates atomic energy
- paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
- pecuniary advantage — financial advantage that is dishonestly obtained by deception and that constitutes a criminal offence
- phenanthrenequinone — a yellowish-orange, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 4 H 8 O 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and the manufacture of dyes.
- physician assistant — a person trained and certified to perform various medical procedures under the supervision of a physician
- polyclonal antibody — a mixture of antibodies of different specificities, as in the serum of a person immunized to various antigens.
- quantitative easing — the policy by which a central bank creates money and uses it to purchase financial assets, thereby increasing the money supply and stimulating a weak economy. Abbreviation: QE.
- quantum electronics — the application of quantum mechanics and quantum optics to the study and design of electronic devices
- rebus sic stantibus — (of the duration of the binding force treaty) for as long as the relevant facts and circumstances remain basically the same.
- resonant-jet engine — resojet engine.
- santa rosa de copan — a town in W Honduras: site of extensive Mayan ruins.
- santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
- scare the pants off — to scare extremely
- significant figures — the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
- social anthropology — study of human culture
- spin quantum number — the quantum number that designates the total angular momentum associated with electron spin and has a value of ½ in units of h /2π.
- st. anthony's cross — a T -shaped cross.
- symptomatic anthrax — blackleg.
- take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
- tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
- the lesser antilles — a group of islands in the Caribbean, including the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Barbados, and the Netherlands Antilles
- tree planters state — Nebraska (used as a nickname).
- vesicular exanthema — an infectious viral disease of swine, characterized by blisters on the snout, mucous membranes, and feet.
- 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.
- wassermann antibody — reagin (def 1).
- waste not, want not — The expression waste not, want not means that if you do not use too much of something now you will have some left later when you need it.
- xenotransplantation — xenograft.