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19-letter words containing g, r

  • 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
  • cairngorm mountains — a mountain range of NE Scotland: part of the Grampians. Highest peak: Ben Macdui, 1309 m (4296 ft); designated a national park in 2003
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cartilaginification — The formation of cartilage.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • 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.
  • chromatographically — With regard to, or by by using chromatography.
  • chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • circulating capital — the non-permanent raw materials and operating expenses that are used up to produce other goods or services
  • circulating decimal — repeating decimal
  • circulating library — a small library circulated in turn to a group of schools or other institutions
  • 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
  • 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
  • comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
  • 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
  • computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
  • computer programmer — a person whose job is to write computer programs
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • 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
  • contagious abortion — brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
  • continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
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