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18-letter words containing c, o, a, t, l, e

  • call to the colors — call or order to serve in the armed forces
  • calling convention — (programming)   The arrangement of arguments for a procedure or function call. Different programming languages may require arguments to be pushed onto a stack or entered in registers in left-to-right or right-to left order, and either the caller or the callee can be responsible for removing the arguments. The calling convention also determines if a variable number of arguments is allowed.
  • cape breton island — an island off SE Canada, in NE Nova Scotia, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso: its easternmost point is Cape Breton. Pop: 132 298 (2006). Area: 10 280 sq km (3970 sq miles)
  • capital allowances — the money spent by a company on fixed assets which can be taken off the profits of the company before tax is imposed
  • career development — a progression through a series of jobs, each with more responsibility and a higher income than the last
  • carisbrooke castle — a castle near Newport on the Isle of Wight: Charles I was held prisoner here from 1647 until his execution in 1649
  • castration complex — an unconscious fear of having one's genitals removed, as a punishment for wishing to have sex with a parent
  • catalogue raisonne — a descriptive catalogue, esp one covering works of art in an exhibition or collection
  • catalonian jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum grandiflorum, of India, having crimson-tinged, fragrant white flowers, grown as an ornamental and for perfume.
  • categorial grammar — a theory that characterizes syntactic categories in terms of functions between classes of expressions. The basic classes are names (N) and sentences (S). Intransitive verbs are symbols for functions which take a name and yield a sentence (written S/N), adverbs form compound verbs from verbs (for example, run fast) and so are (S/N)/(S/N), etc
  • ceiling decoration — a plaster moulding for the centre of a ceiling; other decoration, such as coving
  • cellular automaton — (algorithm, parallel)   (CA, plural "- automata") A regular spatial lattice of "cells", each of which can have any one of a finite number of states. The state of all cells in the lattice are updated simultaneously and the state of the entire lattice advances in discrete time steps. The state of each cell in the lattice is updated according to a local rule which may depend on the state of the cell and its neighbors at the previous time step. Each cell in a cellular automaton could be considered to be a finite state machine which takes its neighbours' states as input and outputs its own state. The best known example is J.H. Conway's game of Life.
  • cellular telephone — a mobile phone
  • central government — the government of a state or country
  • central projection — a projection of one plane onto a second plane such that a point on the first plane and its image on the second plane lie on a straight line through a fixed point not on either plane.
  • centralized school — a public school formed from the pupils and teachers of a number of discontinued smaller schools, especially in a rural district.
  • centum call second — (unit)   (CCS) A unit used (in North America) to quantify the total traffic running in a network. 1 CCS is 100 call-seconds. That means 1 CCS could be 2 calls of 50 seconds duration or 20 calls of 5 seconds duration.
  • checkpoint charlie — a crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War
  • chemical potential — a thermodynamic function of a substance in a system that is the partial differential of the Gibbs function of the system with respect to the number of moles of the substance
  • chinese watermelon — a tropical Asian vine, Benincasa hispida, of the gourd family, having a brown, hairy stem, large, solitary, yellow flowers, and white, melonlike fruit.
  • chloroacetophenone — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 8 H 7 ClO, used in solution as a tear gas. Abbreviation: CN.
  • chlorobromomethane — a clear, colorless, volatile, nonflammable liquid, CH 2 ClBr, used chiefly as an extinguishing agent in fire extinguishers and as a solvent in organic synthesis.
  • chocolate-coloured — dark brown
  • chromolithographer — One engaged in chromolithography.
  • circulatory system — the system concerned with the transport of blood and lymph, consisting of the heart, blood vessels, lymph vessels, etc
  • citizen journalism — the involvement of non-professionals in reporting news, esp in blogs and other websites
  • citta del vaticano — Vatican City
  • classified section — the part of a publication that contains classified advertising
  • clean up one's act — to start to behave in a responsible manner
  • cleopatra's needle — either of two Egyptian obelisks, originally set up at Heliopolis about 1500 bc: one was moved to the Thames Embankment, London, in 1878, the other to Central Park, New York, in 1880
  • closed corporation — a corporation the stock of which is owned by a small number of persons and is rarely traded on the open market
  • clothing allowance — an amount of money to compensate for the purchase of clothes for work, school, etc
  • coals to newcastle — If someone is taking coals to Newcastle, they are trying to give or sell someone something that they already have a lot of.
  • cobalt violet deep — a medium to strong purple color.
  • coffee-table music — unadventurous music
  • collagen injection — an injection of collagen into the lip in order to give it a fuller appearance
  • collection charges — the charges levied to cover expenses for the collection of debt
  • collision diameter — the distance between the centers of two colliding molecules when at their closest point of approach.
  • color transparency — a positive color image photographically produced on transparent film or glass and viewed by transmitted light, usually by projection.
  • colour commentator — a sports celebrity who works as part of a commentary team
  • colour temperature — the temperature of a black-body radiator at which it would emit radiation of the same chromaticity as the light under consideration
  • commedia dell'arte — a form of popular comedy developed in Italy during the 16th to 18th centuries, with stock characters such as Punchinello, Harlequin, and Columbine, in situations improvised from a plot outline
  • commendation medal — a U.S. military decoration awarded for meritorious achievement or service
  • commercial attache — an attaché in an embassy or legation representing the commercial interests of his or her country.
  • committed facility — an agreement by a bank to provide a customer with funds up to a specified limit at a specified rate of interest
  • commonwealth games — an event held every four years in which sportspeople from the countries of the Commonwealth compete
  • communication line — a line carrying communications
  • community language — a language spoken by members of a minority group or community within a majority language context
  • compartmentalizing — Present participle of compartmentalize.
  • complementarianism — The doctrine that genders in a society should have complementary roles.
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