19-letter words containing c, t
- 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
- corrections officer — A corrections officer is someone who works as a guard at a prison.
- corrosive sublimate — mercuric chloride
- corruption of blood — the impurity before law that results from attainder and disqualifies the attainted person from inheriting, retaining, or bequeathing lands or interests in lands: abolished in 1870.
- cosmopolitanization — to make cosmopolitan.
- cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
- count oneself lucky — If you say that someone can count themselves lucky, you mean that the situation they are in or the thing that has happened to them is better than it might have been or than they might have expected.
- counter reformation — the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
- 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.
- counter-programming — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- counter-proposition — a proposition made in place of or in opposition to a preceding one.
- counter-reformation — the reform movement of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and early 17th centuries considered as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation
- counterconditioning — the conditioning of a response that is incompatible with some previously learned response; for example, in psychotherapy an anxious person might be taught relaxation, which is incompatible with anxiety
- counterdemonstrator — Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.
- counterinsurgencies — Plural form of counterinsurgency.
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- counterpoint-rhythm — Music. the art of combining melodies.
- counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge
- counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
- countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
- countertransference — in psychotherapy, transference in which the psychoanalyst or other psychotherapist substitutes the client for the original object of his or her own repressed impulses
- 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
- country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
- country-and-western — country music.
- county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
- course requirements — the qualifications that are required for acceptance onto a degree course
- court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
- court of st james's — the official name of the royal court of Britain
- craters of the moon — a national monument in S Idaho: site of scenic lava-flow formations.
- 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.
- creative department — the department of a company or organization responsible for the design and creation of advertisements and marketing materials
- credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
- credit someone with — to believe that someone has or is responsible for; ascribe to someone
- creeping bent grass — a grass, Agrostis stolonifera, grown as a pasture grass in Europe and North America: roots readily from the stem
- creeping featuritis — (jargon) /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis". Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds. -ism means "condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means "inflammation of".
- crinoline stretcher — (on a Windsor chair) a stretcher having an inwardly curved piece connecting the front legs, and connected to the back legs by short, straight pieces.
- cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
- cry over spilt milk — to lament something that cannot be altered
- crystallized fruits — fruits that are covered in sugar which is melted and then allowed to harden
- crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
- cuboidal epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of cells of cuboid or polyhedral shape.
- culler-fried system — A system for interactive mathematics.
- 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
- cultural relativism — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
- cultural relativity — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
- 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
- cultural-relativism — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
- cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
- current expenditure — expenditure taking place within the financial year in question