19-letter words containing e, c, i, g
- calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
- 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.
- 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.
- chain-reacting pile — nuclear reactor
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
- congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
- consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
- continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
- continental seating — a theater seating plan in which there is no center aisle, but with wide spacing between each row of seats to allow for ease of passage.
- contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contour integration — integration in the complex plane about a closed curve of finite length.
- contra-guide rudder — a rudder having a horizontal offset of its upper and lower halves to improve the flow characteristics of the propeller race.
- contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
- contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
- convergent thinking — analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed, e.g. in arithmetic
- coordinate geometry — analytic geometry.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge