19-letter words containing m, a, c, r, o
- campernelle jonquil — a narcissus, Narcissus odorus, of the amaryllis family, having clusters of two to four fragrant yellow flowers.
- 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
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- cerebral hemorrhage — hemorrhage from a blood vessel into the cerebrum, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.
- 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.
- chamber of commerce — A chamber of commerce is an organization of businessmen that promotes local commercial interests.
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
- 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
- chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
- chemolithoautotroph — (biology) A chemoautotroph or lithoautotroph.
- chlorobromide paper — a relatively fast printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride and silver bromide.
- chlorofluoromethane — any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted with chlorine and fluorine and containing little or no hydrogen: used as refrigerants and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
- christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
- christmas pantomime — pantomime (def 5).
- chromatographically — With regard to, or by by using chromatography.
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- 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.
- classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
- cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
- columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
- combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
- come to the surface — to emerge; become apparent
- command and control — authority exercised by a commander or a military force
- command interpreter — (operating system) A program which reads textual commands from the user or from a file and executes them. Some commands may be executed directly within the interpreter itself (e.g. setting variables or control constructs), others may cause it to load and execute other files. When an IBM PC is booted BIOS loads and runs the MS-DOS command interpreter into memory from file COMMAND.COM found on a floppy disk or hard disk drive. The commands that COMMAND.COM recognizes (e.g. COPY, DIR, PRN) are called internal commands, in contrast to external commands which are executable files.
- command performance — A command performance is a special performance of a play or show which is given for a head of state.
- 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
- comminuted fracture — a fracture in which the bone is splintered or fragmented
- commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
- committed data rate — (communications) (CDR) The data transfer rate that an ISP guarantees a virtual circuit will carry. The CDR is the data portion of Committed Information Rate (CIR).
- common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
- common de-nominator — Mathematics. a number that is a multiple of all the denominators of a set of fractions.
- 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.
- communications port — (hardware, communications) A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
- community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
- 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 disc writer — (storage) (CD burner) A device that can write data to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc Rewritable (CD-RW) discs. Now both these CD formats are often combined with a DVD writer.
- compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
- 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°