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19-letter words containing i, c, t

  • take evasive action — If you take evasive action, you deliberately move away from someone or something in order to avoid meeting them or being hit by them.
  • take it on the chin — the lower extremity of the face, below the mouth.
  • take one's medicine — any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
  • tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • tanizaki jun-ichiro — 1886–1965, Japanese novelist, whose works, such as Some Prefer Nettles (1929) and The Makioka Sisters (1943–48), reflect the tension between Western values and Japanese traditions
  • teacher-pupil ratio — the number of teachers relative to the number of pupils in a particular school
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • technical institute — a higher-education institution
  • tehachapi mountains — a transverse (E–W) mountain range in S central California. Highest peak, Double Mountain, 7982 feet (2433 meters).
  • teilhard de chardin — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher.
  • telephone directory — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
  • telescopic umbrella — an umbrella having parts that telescope
  • term life insurance — life insurance for which premiums are paid over a limited time and that covers a specific term, the face value payable only if death occurs within that term.
  • terminating decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • the compassion club — (in Canada) a nonprofit organization that provides uncontaminated cannabis for medical purposes and natural therapies in a safe environment
  • the cultural cringe — subservience to overseas cultural standards
  • the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
  • the eroica symphony — Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • the executive suite — the offices of the top managers
  • the finishing touch — If you add the finishing touches to something, you add or do the last things that are necessary to complete it.
  • the genuine article — If you describe something as the genuine article, you are emphasizing that it is genuine, and often that it is very good.
  • the little corporal — a nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • the mathworks, inc. — (company)   The company marketing MATLAB. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, Massachusetts 01760-2098 USA. Telephone: +1 (508) 647-7000. Fax: +1 (508) 647-7101.
  • the middle distance — an unspecified point in the distance
  • the oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
  • the peter principle — the theory, usually taken facetiously, that all members in a hierarchy rise to their own level of incompetence
  • the pickwick papers — a novel written by the English novelist Charles Dickens(1812--70)
  • the scottish office — (formerly) a department of the UK government under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland, responsible for a wide range of functions relating to Scotland. Most of these are now (since 1999) the responsibility of the Scottish government; the others are the responsibility of the Scotland Office
  • the social register — a directory, now published annually, of the families who are considered to form the country's social élite
  • the vatican council — the second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, also known as Vatican II, which sat from 1962 to 1965, and among other things allowed the liturgy to be said in the local language, not Latin
  • the whole enchilada — all of it; everything; the entirety of something
  • theatrical producer — a person who is responsible for all aspects of a theatrical production
  • theological virtues — one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.
  • theoretical physics — abstract use of physics
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • thermionic emission — the emission of electrons from very hot solids or liquids: used for producing electrons in valves, electron microscopes, X-ray tubes, etc
  • thermoelectromotive — designating or of the electromotive force produced by a thermocouple
  • thiophosphoric acid — an acid derived from phosphoric acid by substituting one or more sulfur atoms for oxygen atoms.
  • three-martini lunch — an expensive lunch enjoyed by businessmen during the workday which is often accompanied by drinking
  • ticket-of-leave man — (formerly in Britain) a convict who had a permit to leave prison, after serving only part of his sentence, with certain restrictions placed on him
  • tie-clip microphone — a small microphone that is clipped to a person's tie
  • to be in the charts — (of a record or pop group) to be popular
  • to be reckoned with — of considerable importance or influence
  • to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
  • to carry conviction — If something carries conviction, it is likely to be true or likely to be believed.
  • to cast a/its spell — If something or someone casts their spell on you or casts a spell on you, you are fascinated or charmed by them.
  • to change your mind — If you change your mind, or if someone or something changes your mind, you change a decision you have made or an opinion that you had.
  • to click into place — If you have been trying to understand something puzzling and then everything falls into place or clicks into place, you suddenly understand how different pieces of information are connected and everything becomes clearer.
  • to click your heels — If someone such as a soldier clicks their heels, they make a sound by knocking the heels of their shoes together when saluting or greeting someone.
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