19-letter words containing a, n, t
- business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
- buster brown collar — a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.
- by one's bootstraps — by one's own efforts; unaided
- cairngorm mountains — a mountain range of NE Scotland: part of the Grampians. Highest peak: Ben Macdui, 1309 m (4296 ft); designated a national park in 2003
- calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
- can not take a joke — If you say that someone cannot take a joke, you are criticizing them for getting upset or angry at something you think is funny.
- cannot help oneself — to be the victim of circumstances, a habit, etc.
- cannot very well do — If you say that you cannot very well do something, you mean that it would not be right or possible to do it.
- canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- capacitive coupling — the connection of two or more circuits by means of a capacitor.
- capacity attendance — a situation when a venue for an event is as full as it can be
- cape-disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- capital expenditure — expenditure on acquisitions of or improvements to fixed assets
- captain abstraction — The champion of the principles of abstraction and modularity, who protects unwary students on MIT's course 6.001 from the nefarious designs of Sergeant Spaghetticode and his vile concrete programming practices. See also spaghetti code.
- captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
- 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.
- carnot refrigerator — a device operating on the Carnot cycle in which the first temperature is higher than the second.
- cartilaginification — The formation of cartilage.
- cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
- cask of amontillado — a short story (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- cast one's lot with — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- castelnuovo-tedesco — Mario [mah-ryaw] /ˈmɑ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1968, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- catalytic converter — A catalytic converter is a device which is fitted to a car's exhaust to reduce the pollution coming from it.
- catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
- catch sb in the act — If you catch someone in the act, you discover them doing something wrong or committing a crime.
- 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
- catherine of aragon — 1485–1536, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I. The annulment of Henry's marriage to her (1533) against papal authority marked an initial stage in the English Reformation
- catherine the great — (Sophia Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst"Catherine the Great") 1729–96, empress of Russia 1762–96.
- cathodic protection — a technique for protecting metal structures, such as steel ships and pipelines, from electrolytic corrosion by making the structure the cathode in a cell, either by applying an electromotive force directly or by putting it into contact with a more electropositive metal
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
- celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
- celestial mechanics — the study of the motion of celestial bodies under the influence of gravitational fields
- center of curvature — the center of the circle of curvature.
- central reservation — The central reservation is the strip of ground, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a major road.
- centre of curvature — the point on the normal at a given point on a curve on the concave side of the curve whose distance from the point on the curve is equal to the radius of curvature
- centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
- ch'in shih huang ti — Shih Huang Ti.
- chain-reacting pile — nuclear reactor
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
- 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
- character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
- character reference — a testimonial from an employer or acquaintance testifying to a person's good character
- chargeable transfer — a transfer of value made as a gift during a person's lifetime that is not covered by a specific exemption and therefore gives rise to liability under inheritance tax
- chartered librarian — (in Britain) a librarian who has obtained a qualification from the Library Association in addition to a degree or diploma in librarianship
- 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.
- chateauneuf-du-pape — a dry red or white wine from the Rhone valley near Avignon.