19-letter words containing c, e, l, u, i, t
- gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
- general linguistics — the study of the characteristics of language in general rather than of a particular language; theoretical, rather than applied, linguistics.
- genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
- gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
- hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
- humanist technology — (philosophy) Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
- hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
- immunohistochemical — (biology) Of, pertaining to, or by means of immunohistochemistry, the use of immunological techniques to study the chemistry of tissues.
- in particular terms — If you say something in particular terms, you say it using a particular type or level of language or using language which clearly shows your attitude.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
- industrial accident — an accident that happens to an employee of an industrial company during the course of their work
- industrial medicine — the study and practice of the health care of employees of large organizations, including measures to prevent accidents, industrial diseases, and stress in the workforce and to monitor the health of executives
- intellectualization — to seek or consider the rational content or form of.
- internal-combustion — of or relating to an internal-combustion engine.
- internuncial neuron — interneuron
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
- judicial separation — a decree of legal separation of spouses that does not dissolve the marriage bond.
- left-luggage office — a checkroom for baggage.
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
- liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
- lift the curtain on — to begin
- lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
- liquorice all-sorts — a brand of assorted sweets containing liquorice as well as coloured candy made of sugar, gelatine, and coconut
- logical unit number — (storage) (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
- lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix) The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
- male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
- malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
- mercurial barometer — mercury barometer.
- metropolitan county — (in England) any of the six conurbations established as administrative units in the new local government system in 1974; the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986
- miscellaneous items — various kinds of thing, esp small purchases
- molecular biologist — a specialist in the study of biological phenomena at the molecular level
- multiplexor channel — (MPX) mainframe terminology for a slow peripheral device connection, e.g. for a printer, operator console, or card reader.
- natural killer cell — a small killer cell that destroys virus-infected cells or tumor cells without activation by an immune system cell or antibody.
- neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
- nonmaterial culture — the aggregate of values, mores, norms, etc., of a society; the ideational structure of a culture that provides the values and meanings by which it functions.
- nuclear disarmament — the gradual reduction and eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world
- occupational health — Occupational health is the branch of medicine that deals with the health of people in their workplace or in relation to their job.
- olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
- optical double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- particular negative — a proposition of the form “Some S is not P.” Symbol: O.
- pastoral counseling — the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.
- paumotu archipelago — Tuamotu Archipelago.
- persecution complex — an acute irrational fear that other people are plotting one's downfall and that they are responsible for one's failures
- phacoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
- phakoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
- phthalocyanine blue — a pigment used in painting, derived from copper phthalocyanine and characterized chiefly by its brilliant, dark-blue color and by permanence.
- physical sequential — (file format) (PS, QSAM, Queued Sequential Access Method) The simplest data set on an IBM mainframe. Sequential files can only be read or written from the beginning: they do not support random access.