19-letter words containing c, o, r, p, i, s
- cox's orange pippin — a variety of eating apple with sweet flesh and a red-tinged green skin
- cracked compression — Cracked compression is a separation process for separating hydrocarbons further, with an increase in the pressure of the cracked gas.
- criminal psychology — study of criminals' minds
- cry over spilt milk — to lament something that cannot be altered
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- customer experience — Customer experience is what customers feel while shopping, affected by such factors as how a store is laid out, the level of service they receive, and how easy it is to find products.
- deflate compression — deflate
- dental receptionist — a receptionist working in a dental surgery
- detective inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective sergeant but below a detective chief inspector
- dihydrostreptomycin — an antibiotic, C 21 H 41 N 7 O 12 , derived by organic synthesis from and believed to be less toxic than streptomycin: used in the form of its sulfate chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- direct-vision prism — Amici prism.
- disciples of christ — a Christian denomination, founded in the U.S. by Alexander Campbell in the early part of the 19th century, that rejects all creeds, holds the Bible as a sufficient rule of faith and practice, administers baptism by immersion, celebrates the Lord's Supper every Sunday, and has a congregational polity.
- disciplinary action — punishment or caution
- discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
- disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
- displaced homemaker — a woman recently divorced, separated, or widowed after many years as a homemaker.
- dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
- electrocardiographs — Plural form of electrocardiograph.
- electron microscope — An electron microscope is a type of very powerful microscope that uses electrons instead of light to produce a magnified image of something.
- electronic graphics — (on television) the production of graphic designs and text by electronic means
- electrophysiologist — A physiologist whose speciality is electrophysiology.
- electrotherapeutics — (medicine) the use of electricity in therapeutics.
- european commission — the executive body of the European Union formed in 1967, which initiates action in the EU and mediates between member governments
- exclusion principle — Pauli exclusion principle
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- fluophosphoric acid — fluorophosphoric acid.
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
- gel electrophoresis — a technique for separating protein molecules of varying sizes in a mixture by moving them through a block of gel, as of agarose or polyacrylamide, by means of an electric field, with smaller molecules moving faster and therefore farther than larger ones.
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- gigabits per second — (unit) (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
- 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.
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
- historic episcopate — the derivation of the episcopate of a Church in historic succession from the apostles
- historiographically — In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
- hyper-nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- hyperbolic cosecant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of hyperbolic sine
- hypercholesteraemia — (medicine) An abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- hypocholesterolemia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
- hypocholesterolemic — (pathology) Of, pertaining to, or having hypocholesterolemia.
- hypophosphoric acid — a tetrabasic acid, H 4 P 2 O 6 , produced by the slow oxidation of phosphorous in moist air.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
- inprise corporation — Borland Software Corporation.