19-letter words containing g, e, l
- blowing your buffer — (jargon) Losing your train of thought. A reference to buffer overflow.
- blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
- blue-tongued lizard — a large Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, characterized by having a cobalt-blue tongue.
- 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.
- brazen law of wages — the doctrine or theory that wages tend toward a level sufficient only to maintain a subsistence standard of living.
- brightline spectrum — the spectrum of an incandescent substance appearing on a spectrogram as one or more bright lines against a dark background.
- buildings insurance — insurance which covers buildings
- bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
- 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.
- carbon steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
- catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
- 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.
- 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 lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
- common-law marriage — a marriage deemed to exist after a couple have cohabited for several years
- complementary angle — either of two angles whose sum is 90°
- complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
- compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
- comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
- concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- creeping cinquefoil — any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
- criminal negligence — negligence which is punishable under the law
- crown green bowling — (in Britain) bowls played on a crown green
- crystallized ginger — sugar-coated ginger
- cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem