19-letter words containing l, a, r, i, o
- cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
- chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
- chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
- chemolithoautotroph — (biology) A chemoautotroph or lithoautotroph.
- chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
- chlorobromide paper — a relatively fast printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride and silver bromide.
- chloroplatinic acid — a red-brown, crystalline, water-soluble solid, H 2 PtCl 6 ⋅6H 2 O, used chiefly in platinizing glass, metals, and ceramic ware.
- chlorosulfonic acid — a colorless or yellowish, highly corrosive, pungent liquid, HClO 3 S, usually produced by treating sulfur trioxide with hydrogen chloride: used in organic synthesis to introduce the sulfonyl chloride group, =SO 2 Cl.
- christian socialist — a member of any of certain European political parties advocating a form of social organization based on Christian and socialistic principles.
- chromatographically — With regard to, or by by using chromatography.
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
- cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
- circle of curvature — the circle with its center on the normal to the concave side of a curve at a given point on the curve and with its radius equal to the radius of curvature at the point.
- circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
- 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.
- classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
- clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
- clinical governance — a systematic approach to raising standards of health care and tackling poor performance in hospitals
- 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.
- collective behavior — the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.
- collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
- colonial experience — experience of farming, etc, gained by a young Englishman in colonial Australia
- colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
- columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
- commercial software — (software) (Or "commercial off-the-shelf software", COTS) Software that is produced for sale. This contrasts with free software, which is produced for free distribution, meaning without charge and/or without restriction on further distribution. Some companies that sell software distribute some (versions) of products free of charge (but usually with restricted distribution rights), this would probably still be called commercial software. Conversely, software that an individual distributes for free, but for which he accepts donations, would still be called free software.
- commercial traveler — a traveling salesman
- commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
- common iliac artery — iliac artery (def 1).
- common-iliac-artery — Also called common iliac artery. either of two large arteries that conduct blood to the pelvis and the legs.
- common-law marriage — a marriage deemed to exist after a couple have cohabited for several years
- commonsense realism — naive realism.
- community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
- compact disc player — a machine for playing compact discs
- compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
- complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
- computer peripheral — a device that is attached to and controlled by a computer, such as a scanner, printer, or external hard drive
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
- confocal microscope — a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained
- connecticut warbler — a North American wood warbler, Oporornis agilis, olive-green above with a gray head and throat and yellow below.
- consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
- consultation period — a period during which consultations are held before a policy decision is made
- contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
- continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
- contractile vacuole — a membrane-enveloped cellular organelle, found in many microorganisms, that periodically expands, filling with water, and then contracts, expelling its contents to the cell exterior: thought to be important in maintaining hydrostatic equilibrium.
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- conventional memory — (storage) The first 640 kilobytes of an IBM PC's memory. Prior to EMS, XMS, and HMA, real mode application could use only this part of the memory.
- conversational lisp — (language) (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.