19-letter words containing i, s, t

captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
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.
cask of amontillado — a short story (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe.
cast one's lot with — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
cat scratch disease — a disorder characterized by fever and swelling of the lymph glands, caused by a viral infection resulting from the scratch or bite of a cat.
cat-scratch disease — an ailment characterized by fever and swollen glands and believed to be caused by bacteria transmitted by the scratch or bite of a cat
catch sb in the act — If you catch someone in the act, you discover them doing something wrong or committing a crime.
cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
celestial hierarchy — hierarchy (def 6).
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
celestial mechanics — the study of the motion of celestial bodies under the influence of gravitational fields
central reservation — The central reservation is the strip of ground, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a major road.
centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
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.
ch'in shih huang ti — Shih Huang Ti.
chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
chandrasekhar limit — the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf, equal to 1.44 solar masses. A star having a mass above this limit will continue to collapse to form a neutron star
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
chicken-fried steak — a cheap cut of beefsteak that is fried in batter
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.
chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
choledocholithiasis — The presence of gallstones in the common bile duct.
chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
christian scientist — a believer in Christian Science; a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
christian socialist — a member of any of certain European political parties advocating a form of social organization based on Christian and socialistic principles.
christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
cisco systems, inc. — (company) Ethernet hardware manufacturers. Address: 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA. Telephone: +1 408 526 4000, +1 800 553 6387. Fax: +1 408 526 4100.
city of seven hills — Rome2
city of westminster — a borough of Greater London, on the River Thames: contains the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. Pop: 222 000 (2003 est). Area: 22 sq km (8 sq miles)
claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
claims notification — Claims notification is the process of informing an insurance company that a loss has occurred and that the policyholder intends to ask for money as a result.
clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
class action (suit) — a legal action brought by one or more persons on behalf of themselves and a much larger group, all of whom have the same grounds for action
classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
client-server model — client-server
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.
coca colonization's — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
collision detection — (networking) A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
come into one's own — to become fulfilled

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