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19-letter words containing a, l, i, n, c

  • community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
  • compassionate leave — Compassionate leave is time away from your work that your employer allows you for personal reasons, especially when a member of your family dies or is seriously ill.
  • complement fixation — the fixing of complement into the product of an antigen-antibody reaction: used as an infection indicator in certain serologic tests that measure the presence or absence of free, active complement
  • complexity analysis — In sructured program design, a quality-control operation that counts the number of "compares" in the logic implementing a function; a value of less than 10 is considered acceptable.
  • complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
  • computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
  • conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
  • confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
  • 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
  • connecticut warbler — a North American wood warbler, Oporornis agilis, olive-green above with a gray head and throat and yellow below.
  • consolidated school — a public school attended by pupils from several adjoining, esp. rural, districts
  • 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
  • contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
  • continental climate — a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent
  • continental cuisine — a style of cooking that includes the better-known dishes of various western European countries.
  • continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
  • continental seating — a theater seating plan in which there is no center aisle, but with wide spacing between each row of seats to allow for ease of passage.
  • continuation school — a school providing extension courses for people who have left school in the elementary grades to go to work.
  • contractile vacuole — a membrane-enveloped cellular organelle, found in many microorganisms, that periodically expands, filling with water, and then contracts, expelling its contents to the cell exterior: thought to be important in maintaining hydrostatic equilibrium.
  • contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
  • conventional memory — (storage)   The first 640 kilobytes of an IBM PC's memory. Prior to EMS, XMS, and HMA, real mode application could use only this part of the memory.
  • conventional weapon — a nonnuclear weapon.
  • conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
  • conventionalization — to make conventional.
  • conversational lisp — (language)   (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.
  • cordillera oriental — the eastern ranges of the Andes, in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.
  • corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
  • cosmopolitanization — to make cosmopolitan.
  • cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
  • countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
  • countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
  • 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.
  • criminal negligence — negligence which is punishable under the law
  • criminal psychology — study of criminals' minds
  • criminal wrongdoing — the act of causing harm to a person or damage to his or her interests
  • cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
  • crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
  • cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
  • cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
  • cultural revolution — (in China) a mass movement (1965–68), in which the youthful Red Guard played a prominent part. It was initiated by Mao Tse-tung to destroy the power of the bureaucrats and to revolutionize the attitudes and behaviour of the people
  • cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
  • current liabilities — business liabilities maturing within a year
  • curvilinear tracery — tracery, especially of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by a pattern of irregular, boldly curved forms.
  • customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
  • customs regulations — the regulations relating to customs in a particular country
  • cyclohexadienedione — (organic chemistry) benzoquinone.
  • cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
  • dancing-lady orchid — any of numerous epiphytic orchids of the genus Oncidium, often grown as houseplants.
  • dangling participle — a participle intended to modify a noun but having the wrong grammatical relationship to it as for example having left in the sentence Having left Europe for good, Peter's future seemed bleak indeed
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