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19-letter words containing a, c, r, s

  • commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
  • common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
  • commonsense realism — naive realism.
  • communications port — (hardware, communications)   A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
  • community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
  • compact disc player — a machine for playing compact discs
  • compact disc writer — (storage)   (CD burner) A device that can write data to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc Rewritable (CD-RW) discs. Now both these CD formats are often combined with a DVD writer.
  • compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
  • comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
  • complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
  • compulsory purchase — purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell
  • computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • concurrentsmalltalk — (language)   A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • confocal microscope — a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
  • consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
  • consumer resistance — the unwillingness of consumers to adopt a particular product, service, or change
  • contagious abortion — brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
  • container transport — the transport of cargo in containers
  • contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
  • continuous creation — the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe
  • contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
  • contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
  • contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
  • conversational lisp — (language)   (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.
  • cooperative society — a commercial enterprise owned and managed by and for the benefit of customers or workers
  • core protocol stack — (architecture)   1. A portion of the Web Services architecture for defining and describing various Web Services. 2. The architectural protocol layers of a Bluetooth wireless communication system, comprising the Host Control Interface (HCI), Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), RS232 Serial Cable Emulation Profile (RFCOMM), Service Discovery Protocol (SDP), and Object Exchange (OBEX).
  • coronary thrombosis — A coronary thrombosis is the same as a coronary.
  • corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
  • correspondence card — a piece of card, often with the sender's name and address printed on the top, designed to be used for sending brief notes to people through the post
  • corrosive sublimate — mercuric chloride
  • counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • counterdemonstrator — Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.
  • countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
  • countertransference — in psychotherapy, transference in which the psychoanalyst or other psychotherapist substitutes the client for the original object of his or her own repressed impulses
  • country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
  • country-and-western — country music.
  • court of st james's — the official name of the royal court of Britain
  • cox's orange pippin — a variety of eating apple with sweet flesh and a red-tinged green skin
  • cracked compression — Cracked compression is a separation process for separating hydrocarbons further, with an increase in the pressure of the cracked gas.
  • cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
  • craters of the moon — a national monument in S Idaho: site of scenic lava-flow formations.
  • cray research, inc. — (company)   US manufacturer of large powerful mainframe supercomputers, co-founded by noted computer architect, Seymour Cray. Quarterly sales $216M, profits $8M (Aug 1994). Cray were bought by Silicon Graphics, Inc..
  • credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
  • creeping bent grass — a grass, Agrostis stolonifera, grown as a pasture grass in Europe and North America: roots readily from the stem
  • creeping featuritis — (jargon)   /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis". Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds. -ism means "condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means "inflammation of".
  • criminal psychology — study of criminals' minds
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