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

  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
  • new general catalog — a catalog of star clusters, galaxies, and other non-stellar objects, published in 1888
  • no strings attached — without conditions
  • 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).
  • 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
  • orthopaedic surgery — surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • 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.
  • paumotu archipelago — Tuamotu Archipelago.
  • pedestrian crossing — place to cross road
  • performance targets — the expected or predicted success level of an individual, company or organization
  • photographic memory — total recall
  • pneumatic conveying — Pneumatic conveying is the movement of powdered or granulated solids using air.
  • pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.
  • political geography — the branch of human geography that deals with the relationship between political processes and spatial structures (regions, territories, etc)
  • 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
  • pretty good privacy — (tool, cryptography)   (PGP) A high security RSA public-key encryption application for MS-DOS, Unix, VAX/VMS, and other computers. It was written by Philip R. Zimmermann <[email protected]> of Phil's Pretty Good(tm) Software and later augmented by a cast of thousands, especially including Hal Finney, Branko Lankester, and Peter Gutmann. PGP was distributed as "guerrilla freeware". The authors don't mind if it is distributed widely, just don't ask Philip Zimmermann to send you a copy. PGP uses a public-key encryption algorithm claimed by US patent #4,405,829. The exclusive rights to this patent are held by a California company called Public Key Partners, and you may be infringing this patent if you use PGP in the USA. This is explained in the PGP User's Guide, Volume II. PGP allows people to exchange files or messages with privacy and authentication. Privacy and authentication are provided without managing the keys associated with conventional cryptographic software. No secure channels are needed to exchange keys between users, which makes PGP much easier to use. This is because PGP is based on public-key cryptography. PGP encrypts data using the International Data Encryption Algorithm with a random session key, and uses the RSA algorithm to encrypt the session key. In December 1994 Philip Zimmermann faced prosecution for "exporting" PGP out of the United States but in January 1996 the US Goverment dropped the case. A US law prohibits the export of encryption software out of the country. Zimmermann did not do this, but the US government hoped to establish the proposition that posting an encryption program on a BBS or on the Internet constitutes exporting it - in effect, stretching export control into domestic censorship. If the government had won it would have had a chilling effect on the free flow of information on the global network, as well as on everyone's privacy from government snooping.
  • programmer's switch — (hardware)   A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
  • psychotechnological — of or relating to psychotechnology
  • 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
  • removable cartridge — a hard disk enclosed in a case that can be removed from the disk drive, having more storage than floppy disks.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • secretarial college — a college where people are trained to be secretaries
  • 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 intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
  • 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
  • the social register — a directory, now published annually, of the families who are considered to form the country's social élite
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