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19-letter words containing c, o, n, t, a, g

  • not by a long chalk — by no means; not possibly
  • not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
  • noughts and crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
  • noughts-and-crosses — tick-tack-toe (def 1).
  • occupation grouping — a category in a system of classifying people according to occupation, based originally on information obtained by government census and subsequently developed by market research. The classifications are used by the advertising industry to identify potential markets. The groups are A, B, C1, C2, D, and E
  • orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • oscillating circuit — a circuit producing electrical oscillations.
  • outplacement agency — an agency that provides counselling and careers advice, esp to redundant executives, which is paid for by their previous employer
  • parthenogenetically — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • particle technology — Particle technology is knowledge and study which relates to particles, and is used in industry.
  • pastoral counseling — the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.
  • pattern recognition — the automated identification of shapes or forms or patterns of speech.
  • pedestrian crossing — place to cross road
  • performance targets — the expected or predicted success level of an individual, company or organization
  • pneumatic conveying — Pneumatic conveying is the movement of powdered or granulated solids using air.
  • pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.
  • population genetics — the branch of genetics concerned with the hereditary makeup of populations.
  • postage and packing — the cost of packing and mailing an item bought by post
  • prescription charge — a charge, set by the government, to be paid by a patient for medicines
  • propositional logic — (logic)   (or "propositional calculus") A system of symbolic logic using symbols to stand for whole propositions and logical connectives. Propositional logic only considers whether a proposition is true or false. In contrast to predicate logic, it does not consider the internal structure of propositions.
  • psychotechnological — of or relating to psychotechnology
  • radiational cooling — the cooling of the earth's surface and adjacent air, primarily at night, caused by a loss of heat due to surface emission of infrared radiation.
  • recording secretary — an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.
  • register allocation — (compiler, algorithm)   The phase of a compiler that determines which values will be placed in registers. Register allocation may be combined with register assignment. This problem can be shown to be isomorphic to graph colouring by relating values to nodes in the graph and registers to colours. Values (nodes) which must be valid simultaneously are linked by edges and cannot be stored in the same register (coloured the same). See also register dancing and register spilling.
  • religious education — religion as school subject
  • right circular cone — a cone whose surface is generated by lines joining a fixed point to the points of a circle, the fixed point lying on a perpendicular through the center of the circle.
  • rocky mountain goat — a long-haired, white, antelopelike wild goat, Oreamnos americanus, of mountainous regions of western North America, having short, black horns.
  • sacramento sturgeon — white sturgeon.
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • saturation coverage — news coverage (of an event, etc) that is very thorough in order not to miss any details
  • scattersite housing — public housing, especially for low-income families, built throughout an urban area rather than being concentrated in a single neighborhood.
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • secondary picketing — the picketing by strikers of a place of work that supplies goods to or distributes goods from their employer
  • segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
  • self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • single edge contact — (hardware)   (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
  • smoking compartment — a compartment of a train where smoking is permitted
  • social anthropology — study of human culture
  • social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
  • social organization — the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.
  • tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • the oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
  • to change your tune — If you say that someone has changed their tune, you are criticizing them because they have changed their opinion or way of doing things.
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
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