19-letter words containing c, o, a, n, h, r
- commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
- common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
- comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
- congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
- contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
- contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
- coronary thrombosis — A coronary thrombosis is the same as a coronary.
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- craters of the moon — a national monument in S Idaho: site of scenic lava-flow formations.
- criminal psychology — study of criminals' minds
- cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel
- dancing-lady orchid — any of numerous epiphytic orchids of the genus Oncidium, often grown as houseplants.
- dendrochronological — Pertaining to dendrochronology.
- devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
- direct grant school — (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority
- domain architecture — (systems analysis) A generic, organisational structure or design for software systems in a domain. The domain architecture contains the designs that are intended to satisfy requirements specified in the domain model. A domain architecture can be adapted to create designs for software systems within a domain and also provides a framework for configuring assets within individual software systems.
- dominance hierarchy — a system or set of relationships in animal groups that is based on a hierarchical ranking, usually established and maintained by behavior in aggressive encounters: one or a few members hold the highest rank and the others are submissive to those ranking higher and dominant to those ranking lower.
- draw the color line — to impose or accept the color line
- draw the curtain on — to end
- echoencephalography — a device that employs reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the position of brain structures.
- electro-shock baton — a baton used as a weapon to pass an electric current through part of the body
- electrohydrodynamic — (physics) Of or pertaining to electrohydrodynamics.
- electromechanically — In an electromechanical way.
- electron micrograph — a photograph or image of a specimen taken using an electron microscope
- electronic graphics — (on television) the production of graphic designs and text by electronic means
- euclidean algorithm — Euclid's Algorithm
- fashion coordinator — a person in a department store or other establishment who coordinates activities centered upon or related to fashion, as fashion themes, shows, displays, and promotion.
- flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- french north africa — the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia
- glottochronological — Of or pertaining to glottochronology.
- goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
- grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
- grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- grandmother's clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- graphic workstation — (graphics, computer) A workstation specifically configured for graphics works such as image manipulation, bitmap graphics ("paint"), and vector graphics ("draw") type applications. Such work requires a powerful CPU and a high resolution display. A graphic workstation is very similar to a CAD workstation and, given the typical specifications of personal computers currently available in 1999, the distinctions are very blurred and are more likely to depend on availability of specific software than any detailed hardware requirements.
- great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
- harmonic distortion — distortion caused by nonlinear characteristics of electronic apparatus, esp of audio amplifiers, that generate unwanted harmonics of the input frequencies
- heel-and-toe racing — race walking.
- hepatic portal vein — a vein connecting two capillary networks in the liver
- heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
- hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
- honorable discharge — a discharge from military service of a person who has fulfilled obligations efficiently, honorably, and faithfully.
- horizontal encoding — (processor) An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
- household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
- human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
- huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.