19-letter words containing c, o, s, p, e, t
- counter-proposition — a proposition made in place of or in opposition to a preceding one.
- counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge
- court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
- 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.
- customer preference — Customer preference is what type of product an individual customer likes and dislikes.
- deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
- 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.
- disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
- dobsonian telescope — a relatively inexpensive Newtonian telescope, suitable for visual but not photographic use, in which the tube assembly slips freely in the lower base.
- ecatepec de morelos — a city in S central Mexico, a suburb of Mexico City: on a 12th-century Aztec site.
- 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.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- 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.
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
- 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).
- gloucester old spot — a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- grocer's apostrophe — an apostrophe placed before a final s intended to indicate the plural but in fact forming the possessive
- 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
- hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
- 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.
- impressionistically — In an impressionistic manner.
- in someone's pocket — If you say that someone is in someone else's pocket, you disapprove of the fact that the first person is willing to do whatever the second person tells them, for example out of weakness or in return for money.
- in the second place — secondly
- incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- inprise corporation — Borland Software Corporation.
- insect pest control — the killing, reduction or elimination of insects which are pests, using insecticide, etc