19-letter words containing e, o, a
- 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
- center of curvature — the center of the circle of curvature.
- central reservation — The central reservation is the strip of ground, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a major road.
- centre of curvature — the point on the normal at a given point on a curve on the concave side of the curve whose distance from the point on the curve is equal to the radius of curvature
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- cerebral hemorrhage — hemorrhage from a blood vessel into the cerebrum, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
- cerebral thrombosis — formation of a clot or other blockage in one of the blood vessels of the brain, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
- cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
- chamber of commerce — A chamber of commerce is an organization of businessmen that promotes local commercial interests.
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
- champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
- 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.
- characteristic root — a scalar for which there exists a nonzero vector such that the scalar times the vector equals the value of the vector under a given linear transformation on a vector space.
- chassis dynamometer — A chassis dynamometer is a piece of test equipment fitted with rollers for the wheels of a vehicle, that is capable of providing drive input and measuring output such as power and torque at the wheels.
- chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
- chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
- chemolithoautotroph — (biology) A chemoautotroph or lithoautotroph.
- cherenkov radiation — the electromagnetic radiation produced when a charged particle moves through a medium at a greater velocity than the velocity of light in that medium
- chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
- chlorobromide paper — a relatively fast printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride and silver bromide.
- chlorofluoromethane — any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted with chlorine and fluorine and containing little or no hydrogen: used as refrigerants and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
- cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
- choledocholithiasis — The presence of gallstones in the common bile duct.
- christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
- christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
- chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
- cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
- circle of curvature — the circle with its center on the normal to the concave side of a curve at a given point on the curve and with its radius equal to the radius of curvature at the point.
- circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
- 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.
- class consciousness — awareness of belonging to a particular social rank or grade
- classical economics — a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.
- clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
- clinical governance — a systematic approach to raising standards of health care and tackling poor performance in hospitals
- cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
- cobalt violet light — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of arsenate of cobalt, characterized chiefly by its violet color, permanence, and poisonous properties.
- 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.
- coded character set — (character, standard) A mapping, generally 1:1, from a set of integers, known as character codes or code positions, to a set of characters that may include letters, digits, punctuation, control codes, mathematical and typographic symbols. There are several standard coded character sets, the most widely used is ASCII, generally in its Latin-1 dialect, with Unicode becoming slowly more common; while EBCDIC and Baudot are extinct except in legacy systems.
- 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.
- coherent parallel c — (language) A data parallel version of C.
- collective behavior — the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.
- college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
- collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
- colonial experience — experience of farming, etc, gained by a young Englishman in colonial Australia
- colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
- columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
- combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments