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21-letter words containing rs

  • adela rogers st johnsAdela Rogers, 1894–1988, U.S. journalist and writer.
  • adversative asyndeton — a staccato effect produced by omitting adversative connectives from between two or more items forming a group, as in “I liked all there was to buy in the store … I didn't get anything.”.
  • adverse drug reaction — An adverse drug reaction is a harmful effect associated with the use of a medication at a normal dosage.
  • american saddle horse — one of a breed of horses, raised originally in the U.S., that have high-stepping gaits and are bred to the three-gaited or five-gaited type.
  • anders jonas ångström — Anders Jonas [an-derz joh-nuh s;; Swedish ahn-duh rs-yoo-nahs] /ˈæn dərz ˈdʒoʊ nəs;; Swedish ˈɑn dərsˈyu nɑs/ (Show IPA), 1814–74, Swedish astronomer and physicist.
  • as a matter of course — If you do something as a matter of course, you do it as part of your normal work or way of life.
  • atmospheric inversion — inversion (def 12).
  • atmospheric-inversion — an act or instance of inverting.
  • aversive conditioning — a type of behavior conditioning in which noxious stimuli are associated with undesirable or unwanted behavior that is to be modified or abolished, as the use of nausea-inducing drugs in the treatment of alcoholism.
  • banach-tarski paradox — (mathematics)   It is possible to cut a solid ball into finitely many pieces (actually about half a dozen), and then put the pieces together again to get two solid balls, each the same size as the original. This paradox is a consequence of the Axiom of Choice.
  • bursting at the seams — If a place is very full, you can say that it is bursting at the seams.
  • charity commissioners — (in Britain) members of a commission constituted to keep a register of charities and control charitable trusts
  • correspondence course — A correspondence course is a course in which you study at home, receiving your work by post and sending it back by post.
  • criminal conversation — (formerly) a common law action brought by a husband by which he claimed damages against an adulterer
  • ethics of the fathers — a treatise of the Mishnah that comprises six chapters and consists chiefly of proverbs, aphorisms, and principles of ethics, law, and religion.
  • first baron ashburtonAlexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
  • first consonant shift — the consonant shift described by Grimm's law, which distinguishes Germanic languages from other Indo-European languages.
  • first-dollar coverage — insurance that provides payment for the full loss up to the insured amount with no deductibles.
  • first-round financing — First round financing is the first time a new company raises money from investors.
  • food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
  • fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
  • from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
  • give a horse its head — to allow a horse to gallop by lengthening the reins
  • help a person on with — to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
  • identification papers — documents that serve to establish someone's identity
  • in the course of time — eventually
  • in the first instance — You say in the first instance to mention something that is the first step in a series of actions.
  • indicated horse-power — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
  • inflationary universe — a version of the big bang theory in which the universe underwent very rapid growth during the first fraction of a second before it settled down to its current rate of expansion.
  • interpersonal therapy — a type of psychotherapy that focuses on conflicts in one's personal relationships.
  • intersubstitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • junior varsity sports — sports played at the second highest rank for university sports, ranking first after varsity
  • korsakoff's psychosis — a mental illness involving severe confusion and inability to retain recent memories, usually caused by alcoholism
  • like a blue-arsed fly — in a state of frenzied activity
  • make yourself at home — settle in
  • naturalization papers — documents confirming that someone has been awarded citizenship of a country he or she was not born in
  • no less a person than — a person of no lower importance, rank, etc. than
  • nonexamination course — a course of study in which there are no examinations
  • one-point perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.
  • persistence of memory — a painting (1931) by Salvador Dali.
  • persistence of vision — the retention of a visual image for a short period of time after the removal of the stimulus that produced it: the phenomenon that produces the illusion of movement when viewing motion pictures.
  • person-to-person call — a call to a specified person; if that person cannot take the call there is no charge
  • personality inventory — a questionnaire designed to measure personality types or characteristics.
  • personalized medicine — an approach to the practice of medicine that uses information about a patient’s unique genetic makeup and environment to customize the patient's medical care to fit his or her individual requirements.
  • phenarsazine chloride — adamsite.
  • pipelined burst cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
  • powersoft corporation — (company)   A leading vendor of client/server application development tools. In February 1994, Watcom became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Powersoft Corporation which merged with Sybase on 13 February 1995. In April 1995, the new company is the fastest growing top-ten software company and the seventh largest software company in the world. Headquarters: Concord, Massachusetts, USA.
  • reverse polish syntax — postfix notation
  • reverse transcriptase — a retrovirus enzyme that synthesizes DNA from viral RNA, the reverse of the usual DNA-to-RNA replication: used in genetic engineering to clone genes from RNA strands.
  • snap one's fingers at — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.

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