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17-letter words containing c, a, t

  • capital formation — the net additions to a capital stock in an accounting period
  • capital gains tax — a tax on the profit made from the sale of an asset
  • capital structure — the way that a company finances its assets through a combination of equity, debt etc
  • capital-intensive — Capital-intensive industries and businesses need the investment of large sums of money. Compare labour-intensive.
  • captain's biscuit — a type of hard fancy biscuit
  • carbon offsetting — a program in which a company, country, etc., reduces or offsets its carbon emissions through the funding of activities and projects that improve the environment: Carbon offsetting does not always have a quantifiable impact on the planet.
  • cardiac tamponade — tamponade (def 2).
  • cardiac-tamponade — Medicine/Medical. the use of a tampon, as to stop a hemorrhage.
  • cardio striptease — a form of keep-fit exercise in which people move their bodies in the manner of striptease artists
  • cardioaccelerator — a substance that increases the heart rate.
  • cardiorespiratory — of, relating to, or affecting the heart and respiratory system.
  • caretaker manager — a person who temporarily holds the office of manager of a football club
  • caribbean current — an ocean current flowing westward through the Caribbean Sea.
  • cariboo mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3520 m (11 549 ft)
  • carlos de austria — Don [dawn] /dɔn/ (Show IPA), 1545–68, eldest son of Philip II of Spain: died during imprisonment for conspiracy against his father.
  • carolina parakeet — an extinct New World parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis, that ranged into the northern U.S., having yellowish-green plumage with an orange-yellow head.
  • carry a torch for — If you say that someone is carrying a torch for someone else, you mean that they secretly admire them or love them.
  • carrying capacity — the maximum number of individuals that an area of land can support, usually determined by their food requirements
  • cartesian product — the set of all ordered pairs of members of two given sets. The product A × B is the set of all pairs <a, b> where a is a member of A and b is a member of B
  • cartoon character — one of the people or animals in an animated film
  • case-study method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
  • cassette recorder — A cassette recorder is a machine that is used for recording and listening to cassettes.
  • cast/run your eye — If you cast your eye or run your eye over something, you look at it or read it quickly.
  • castilla la nueva — Spanish name of New Castile.
  • castilla la vieja — Spanish name of Old Castile.
  • casting the runes — (jargon)   What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program because it never works for anyone else; especially used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight.
  • castle in the air — a hope or desire unlikely to be realized; daydream
  • castor and pollux — the twin sons of Leda: Pollux was fathered by Zeus, Castor by the mortal Tyndareus. After Castor's death, Pollux spent half his days with his half-brother in Hades and half with the gods in Olympus
  • cat scratch fever — a disorder characterized by fever and swelling of the lymph glands, caused by a viral infection resulting from the scratch or bite of a cat.
  • cat-o'-nine-tails — a rope whip consisting of nine knotted thongs, used formerly to flog prisoners
  • cat-scratch fever — a disease of humans caused by an organism, Bartonella henselae, usually resulting from a scratch by a cat and characterized by lymph node enlargement
  • catalina (island) — Santa Catalina (Island)
  • catalytic cracker — a unit in an oil refinery in which mineral oils with high boiling points are converted to fuels with lower boiling points by a catalytic process
  • catapult-launched — (of aircraft) launched into the air by a device installed in warships
  • catastrophization — The act or process of catastrophizing.
  • catch one's death — to contract a severe cold
  • catcher resonator — See under Klystron.
  • categoric contact — behavior toward an individual on the basis of the type or group of people that person represents rather than on the basis of personal makeup.
  • caterpillar track — A Caterpillar track is a linked metal chain fastened around the wheels of a heavy vehicle to help it to move over rough ground.
  • cathedral ceiling — a high ceiling formed by or suggesting an open-timbered roof.
  • catholic epistles — the epistles of James, I and II Peter, I John, and Jude, which were addressed to the universal Church rather than to an individual or a particular church
  • cationic cocktail — (hardware)   (Or "Downy cocktail") Diluted fabric softener sprayed on computer room carpets to prevent static electricity from being built up by feet shuffling on carpet. The canonical cationic cocktail is one part unscented liquid fabric softener (in the US, usually "Downy" brand) to five parts water. "Cationic" is the chemical term for the most common active ingredient in fabric softeners. The use of the term "cocktail" may be influenced by its use in other jargons, especially pharmacological and chemical, to denote a mixture which, like cationic cocktail, typically contains no alcohol and would be unwise to drink.
  • cattle tick fever — Texas fever
  • caudal anesthesia — anesthesia below the pelvis, induced by injecting an anesthetic into the sacral portion of the spinal canal.
  • causality paradox — the hypothetical cause-and-effect of time travel and making changes in the past that would affect current actions.
  • cavalier servente — a lover; suitor.
  • celestial equator — the great circle lying on the celestial sphere, the plane of which is perpendicular to the line joining the north and south celestial poles
  • celestial horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • cellular automata — cellular automaton
  • cellulose acetate — nonflammable material made by acetylating cellulose: used in the manufacture of film, dopes, lacquers, and artificial fibres
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