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18-letter words containing a, l, n, t

  • capital investment — the money that is invested in something
  • capital punishment — Capital punishment is punishment which involves the legal killing of a person who has committed a serious crime such as murder.
  • career development — a progression through a series of jobs, each with more responsibility and a higher income than the last
  • cartilaginous fish — any fish of the class Chondrichthyes, including the sharks, skates, and rays, having a skeleton composed entirely of cartilage
  • castration complex — an unconscious fear of having one's genitals removed, as a punishment for wishing to have sex with a parent
  • casualty insurance — insurance providing coverage against accident and property damages, as automobile, theft, liability, and explosion insurance, but not including life insurance, fire insurance, or marine insurance.
  • catalogue raisonne — a descriptive catalogue, esp one covering works of art in an exhibition or collection
  • catalonian jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum grandiflorum, of India, having crimson-tinged, fragrant white flowers, grown as an ornamental and for perfume.
  • catalytic cracking — a method used in the petroleum industry for the cracking of petroleum by catalysis
  • catapult launching — the fact of launching aircraft into the air by a device installed in warships
  • caterpillar hunter — any of various carabid beetles of the genus Calosoma, of Europe and North America, which prey on the larvae of moths and butterflies
  • catskill mountains — a mountain range in SE New York State: resort. Highest peak: Slide Mountain, 1261 m (4204 ft)
  • ceiling decoration — a plaster moulding for the centre of a ceiling; other decoration, such as coving
  • celestial guidance — the guidance of a spacecraft or missile by reference to the position of one or more celestial bodies
  • cellular automaton — (algorithm, parallel)   (CA, plural "- automata") A regular spatial lattice of "cells", each of which can have any one of a finite number of states. The state of all cells in the lattice are updated simultaneously and the state of the entire lattice advances in discrete time steps. The state of each cell in the lattice is updated according to a local rule which may depend on the state of the cell and its neighbors at the previous time step. Each cell in a cellular automaton could be considered to be a finite state machine which takes its neighbours' states as input and outputs its own state. The best known example is J.H. Conway's game of Life.
  • cellular telephone — a mobile phone
  • central government — the government of a state or country
  • central projection — a projection of one plane onto a second plane such that a point on the first plane and its image on the second plane lie on a straight line through a fixed point not on either plane.
  • centralized school — a public school formed from the pupils and teachers of a number of discontinued smaller schools, especially in a rural district.
  • centrifugal clutch — an automatic clutch in which the friction surfaces are engaged by weighted levers acting under centrifugal force at a certain speed of rotation
  • centum call second — (unit)   (CCS) A unit used (in North America) to quantify the total traffic running in a network. 1 CCS is 100 call-seconds. That means 1 CCS could be 2 calls of 50 seconds duration or 20 calls of 5 seconds duration.
  • chambered nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • character-building — improving certain good or useful traits in a person's character, esp self-reliance, endurance, and courage
  • chattering classes — The chattering classes are people such as journalists, broadcasters, or public figures who comment on events but have little or no influence over them.
  • checkpoint charlie — a crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War
  • chemical potential — a thermodynamic function of a substance in a system that is the partial differential of the Gibbs function of the system with respect to the number of moles of the substance
  • chinese watermelon — a tropical Asian vine, Benincasa hispida, of the gourd family, having a brown, hairy stem, large, solitary, yellow flowers, and white, melonlike fruit.
  • chloroacetophenone — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 8 H 7 ClO, used in solution as a tear gas. Abbreviation: CN.
  • chlorobromomethane — a clear, colorless, volatile, nonflammable liquid, CH 2 ClBr, used chiefly as an extinguishing agent in fire extinguishers and as a solvent in organic synthesis.
  • church of scotland — the established church in Scotland, Calvinist in doctrine and Presbyterian in constitution
  • circular breathing — a technique for sustaining a phrase on a wind instrument, using the cheeks to force air out of the mouth while breathing in through the nose
  • circulating medium — currency serving as a medium of exchange
  • circumnavigational — Relating to circumnavigation.
  • citizen journalism — the involvement of non-professionals in reporting news, esp in blogs and other websites
  • citta del vaticano — Vatican City
  • clark's nutcracker — a nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana, of western North America, having pale gray plumage and black and white wings and tail.
  • classical sanskrit — Sanskrit of an ancient period earlier than that of the Prakrits and later than Vedic.
  • classified section — the part of a publication that contains classified advertising
  • claw-and-ball foot — ball-and-claw foot.
  • clean as a whistle — If you describe something as clean as a whistle, you mean that it is completely clean.
  • clean up one's act — to start to behave in a responsible manner
  • cleopatra's needle — either of two Egyptian obelisks, originally set up at Heliopolis about 1500 bc: one was moved to the Thames Embankment, London, in 1878, the other to Central Park, New York, in 1880
  • clinical pathology — the branch of pathology dealing with the study of disease and disease processes by means of chemical, microscopic, and serologic examinations.
  • closed corporation — a corporation the stock of which is owned by a small number of persons and is rarely traded on the open market
  • clothing allowance — an amount of money to compensate for the purchase of clothes for work, school, etc
  • coals to newcastle — If someone is taking coals to Newcastle, they are trying to give or sell someone something that they already have a lot of.
  • collagen injection — an injection of collagen into the lip in order to give it a fuller appearance
  • collection charges — the charges levied to cover expenses for the collection of debt
  • collision diameter — the distance between the centers of two colliding molecules when at their closest point of approach.
  • colloidal solution — a mixture having particles of one component, with diameters between 10 −7 and 10 −9 metres, suspended in a continuous phase of another component. The mixture has properties between those of a solution and a fine suspension
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