19-letter words containing i, g, n, o
- 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.
- booker t washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- bordering countries — countries that share a border with a particular country
- briggsian logarithm — common logarithm.
- bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
- bring into the open — to make evident or public
- building contractor — an individual or company that contracts for the construction of houses, etc
- business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
- buy a pig in a poke — to buy, get, or agree to something without sight or knowledge of it in advance
- 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
- 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.
- cartilaginification — The formation of cartilage.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
- chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
- cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
- 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
- clinical psychology — the branch of psychology that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation
- clinicopathological — of or relating to the combined study of disease symptoms and pathology.
- 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
- comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- contributing factor — something that is partly responsible for a development or phenomenon
- 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