19-letter words containing c, o, n, v, i
- corporate venturing — the provision of venture capital by one company for another in order to obtain information about the company requiring capital or as a step towards acquiring it
- counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
- countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
- countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
- creative accounting — Creative accounting is when companies present or organize their accounts in such a way that they gain money for themselves or give a false impression of their profits.
- cultural revolution — (in China) a mass movement (1965–68), in which the youthful Red Guard played a prominent part. It was initiated by Mao Tse-tung to destroy the power of the bureaucrats and to revolutionize the attitudes and behaviour of the people
- declaration of love — a statement made by one person to another in which they say they are in love with the other person
- detective constable — a police officer who investigates crime and who is of the lowest rank
- detective inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective sergeant but below a detective chief inspector
- devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
- direct-vision prism — Amici prism.
- disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
- ecumenical movement — See under ecumenical (def 4).
- educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
- electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
- electronegativities — Plural form of electronegativity.
- energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
- evaporative cooling — a method of reducing temperature that uses evaporation
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- flag of convenience — the foreign flag under which merchant ships register in order to save on taxes or wages, or to avoid government regulations.
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- goods received note — a document created by a buyer on receipt of merchandise and which describes each good and details the quantity of each received
- governing principle — a fundamental moral rule that guides and influences how something is done
- grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
- grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
- have a bone to pick — to have grounds for a quarrel
- hepatic portal vein — a vein connecting two capillary networks in the liver
- hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
- immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
- incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
- incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
- information service — a service which provides information
- input/output device — a device that passes data into and out of a computer
- interactive fiction — an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
- internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
- invasion of privacy — an encroachment upon the right to be let alone or to be free from publicity.
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
- locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
- magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
- magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
- matthias i corvinus — ?1440–90, king of Hungary (1458–90): built up the most powerful kingdom in Central Europe. A patron of Renaissance art, he founded the Corvina library, one of the finest in Europe
- minor seventh chord — a chord consisting of a minor triad with an added minor seventh above the root
- mordvinian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- motivation research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
- moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
- national convention — French History. the legislature of France 1792–95.