19-letter words containing c, r, o, s, l, a
- christian socialist — a member of any of certain European political parties advocating a form of social organization based on Christian and socialistic principles.
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
- classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
- clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
- cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
- cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
- cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
- collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
- commercial software — (software) (Or "commercial off-the-shelf software", COTS) Software that is produced for sale. This contrasts with free software, which is produced for free distribution, meaning without charge and/or without restriction on further distribution. Some companies that sell software distribute some (versions) of products free of charge (but usually with restricted distribution rights), this would probably still be called commercial software. Conversely, software that an individual distributes for free, but for which he accepts donations, would still be called free software.
- commonsense realism — naive realism.
- community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
- compact disc player — a machine for playing compact discs
- compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
- complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
- compulsory purchase — purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
- concurrentsmalltalk — (language) A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
- confocal microscope — a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained
- consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
- consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- conversational lisp — (language) (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.
- core protocol stack — (architecture) 1. A portion of the Web Services architecture for defining and describing various Web Services. 2. The architectural protocol layers of a Bluetooth wireless communication system, comprising the Host Control Interface (HCI), Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), RS232 Serial Cable Emulation Profile (RFCOMM), Service Discovery Protocol (SDP), and Object Exchange (OBEX).
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- corrosive sublimate — mercuric chloride
- countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
- cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
- criminal psychology — study of criminals' minds
- cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel
- cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
- cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- cultivated mushroom — an edible mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) with a pale cap and stalk: the most common food mushroom
- customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
- customs regulations — the regulations relating to customs in a particular country
- davy jones's locker — the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
- deflate compression — deflate
- dental receptionist — a receptionist working in a dental surgery
- developable surface — a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or compressing any part of it, as a circular cone.
- devil's coach-horse — a large black rove beetle, Ocypus olens, with large jaws and ferocious habits
- devils-on-horseback — a savoury of prunes wrapped in bacon slices and served on toast
- dielectric constant — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
- digital electronics — (electronics) The implementation of two-valued logic using electronic logic gates such as and gates, or gates and flip-flops. In such circuits the logical values true and false are represented by two different voltages, e.g. 0V for false and +5V for true. Similarly, numbers are normally represented in binary using two different voltages to represented zero and one. Digital electronics contrasts with analogue electronics which represents continuously varying quantities like sound pressure using continuously varying voltages. Digital electronics is the foundation of modern computers and digital communications. Massively complex digital logic circuits with millions of gates can now be built onto a single integrated circuit such as a microprocessor and these circuits can perform millions of operations per second.
- direct grant school — (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority
- disciplinary action — punishment or caution
- 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
- dynamic translation — (architecture) A virtual machine implementation approach, used to speed up execution of byte-code programs. To execute a program unit such as a method or a function, the virtual machine compiles its bytecodes into (hardware) machine code. The translated code is also placed in a cache, so that next time that unit's machine code can be executed immediately, without repeating the translation. This technique was pioneered by the commercial Smalltalk implementation currently known as VisualWorks, in the early 1980s. Currently it is also used by some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine under the name JIT (Just In Time compilation).