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19-letter words containing e, c, g

  • black-tailed godwit — a large wading bird with a very long beak, Limosa limosa, found in W and Central Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia
  • blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
  • boat-tailed grackle — a large grackle, Quiscalus major, of the southeastern U.S., that folds its tail into a shape resembling the keel of a boat.
  • bordering countries — countries that share a border with a particular country
  • brightline spectrum — the spectrum of an incandescent substance appearing on a spectrogram as one or more bright lines against a dark background.
  • bug tracking system — (programming)   (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.
  • buildings insurance — insurance which covers buildings
  • business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
  • cable-stayed bridge — a type of suspension bridge in which the supporting cables are connected directly to the bridge deck without the use of suspenders
  • calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
  • camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
  • canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  • capacitive coupling — the connection of two or more circuits by means of a capacitor.
  • captains courageous — a novel (1897) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • carbon steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
  • carnot refrigerator — a device operating on the Carnot cycle in which the first temperature is higher than the second.
  • catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
  • category management — the management of a range of related products in a way designed to increase sales of all of the products
  • catherine of aragon — 1485–1536, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I. The annulment of Henry's marriage to her (1533) against papal authority marked an initial stage in the English Reformation
  • catherine the great — (Sophia Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst"Catherine the Great") 1729–96, empress of Russia 1762–96.
  • celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
  • centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
  • ceramic engineering — the branch of engineering concerned with the development and production of ceramics.
  • cerebral hemorrhage — hemorrhage from a blood vessel into the cerebrum, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
  • chain-reacting pile — nuclear reactor
  • champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
  • champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
  • champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • champion of england — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
  • character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
  • chargeable transfer — a transfer of value made as a gift during a person's lifetime that is not covered by a specific exemption and therefore gives rise to liability under inheritance tax
  • chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
  • chemical weathering — any of the various weathering processes that cause exposed rock to undergo chemical decomposition, changing the chemical and mineralogical composition of the rock: Oxygen and acids are agents in chemical weathering.
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • circulating decimal — repeating decimal
  • circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
  • claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
  • clinical governance — a systematic approach to raising standards of health care and tackling poor performance in hospitals
  • cobalt violet light — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of arsenate of cobalt, characterized chiefly by its violet color, permanence, and poisonous properties.
  • coefficient of drag — the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and surface area of the body.
  • college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
  • common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
  • common-law marriage — a marriage deemed to exist after a couple have cohabited for several years
  • community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
  • competitive bidding — a system by which a contract is awarded to the lowest bidder
  • complementary angle — either of two angles whose sum is 90°
  • complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
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