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19-letter words containing a, c, m, e

  • black-billed magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
  • blackstrap molasses — the molasses remaining after the maximum quantity of sugar has been extracted from the raw material
  • bug tracking system — (programming)   (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.
  • calcium oxychloride — a white powder that decomposes on contact with water and has the characteristic odor of gaseous chlorine: regarded, when dry, as a mixed calcium hypochlorite-chloride, used as a commercial bleach for wood pulp, textiles, oils, and soaps, and in laundering as a decolorizer and disinfectant.
  • calculate a premium — If you calculate a premium, you decide how much a policyholder has to pay for insurance cover.
  • calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
  • camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
  • campernelle jonquil — a narcissus, Narcissus odorus, of the amaryllis family, having clusters of two to four fragrant yellow flowers.
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • cap-de-la-madeleine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Three Rivers, on the St. Lawrence.
  • cape-disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
  • catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
  • catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
  • category management — the management of a range of related products in a way designed to increase sales of all of the products
  • cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
  • celestial mechanics — the study of the motion of celestial bodies under the influence of gravitational fields
  • ceramic engineering — the branch of engineering concerned with the development and production of ceramics.
  • cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
  • cerebral hemisphere — either half of the cerebrum
  • cerebral hemorrhage — hemorrhage from a blood vessel into the cerebrum, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
  • cerebral thrombosis — formation of a clot or other blockage in one of the blood vessels of the brain, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
  • chamber of commerce — A chamber of commerce is an organization of businessmen that promotes local commercial interests.
  • chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
  • champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
  • champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
  • champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • champion of england — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • chandrasekhar limit — the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf, equal to 1.44 solar masses. A star having a mass above this limit will continue to collapse to form a neutron star
  • chassis dynamometer — A chassis dynamometer is a piece of test equipment fitted with rollers for the wheels of a vehicle, that is capable of providing drive input and measuring output such as power and torque at the wheels.
  • chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
  • chemical dependency — addiction to drugs or alcohol.
  • chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
  • chemical weathering — any of the various weathering processes that cause exposed rock to undergo chemical decomposition, changing the chemical and mineralogical composition of the rock: Oxygen and acids are agents in chemical weathering.
  • chemolithoautotroph — (biology) A chemoautotroph or lithoautotroph.
  • chlorobromide paper — a relatively fast printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride and silver bromide.
  • chlorofluoromethane — any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted with chlorine and fluorine and containing little or no hydrogen: used as refrigerants and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
  • christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
  • christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • circulating decimal — repeating decimal
  • circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
  • claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
  • classical economics — a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.
  • classical mechanics — the study of mechanics using Newton's laws rather than quantum theory and relativity
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
  • columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
  • combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
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