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19-letter words containing a, n, c, e, p, s

  • a storm in a teacup — If you describe a situation as a storm in a teacup, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something that is not important.
  • absolute complement — complement (def 8).
  • absorption spectrum — the characteristic pattern of dark lines or bands that occurs when electromagnetic radiation is passed through an absorbing medium into a spectroscope. An equivalent pattern occurs as coloured lines or bands in the emission spectrum of that medium
  • accessory apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • accounts department — the section of a company that deals with the accounts
  • ace up one's sleeve — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
  • acknowledgment slip — a piece of paper that you sign as proof of having received a letter, parcel, payment, etc
  • acoustic gramophone — a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
  • agency spokesperson — a spokesperson for a government agency
  • antarctic peninsula — the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south
  • anticompetitiveness — The quality of being anticompetitive.
  • application testing — system testing
  • applied linguistics — linguistic theory as applied to such fields as lexicography, psychology, the teaching of reading, the creation of orthographies, and especially language teaching.
  • atmospheric braking — a technique of reentry in which the vehicle is maneuvered in the upper atmosphere so as to lose velocity by utilizing drag without overheating.
  • balance of payments — A country's balance of payments is the difference, over a period of time, between the payments it makes to other countries for imports and the payments it receives from other countries for exports.
  • banker's acceptance — a draft or bill of exchange drawn on a bank and accepted by it
  • be burnt to a crisp — If something is burnt to a crisp, it is completely burnt.
  • cannot help oneself — to be the victim of circumstances, a habit, etc.
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
  • cape-disappointmentCape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • carbon steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
  • cash in one's chips — to turn in one's chips for their equivalent in money
  • cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
  • 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)
  • chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
  • chinese chippendale — a branch of Chippendale style in which Chinese styles and motifs are used
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
  • clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
  • container transport — the transport of cargo in containers
  • contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
  • conversational lisp — (language)   (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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".

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