19-letter words containing n, a, s, c
- captain abstraction — The champion of the principles of abstraction and modularity, who protects unwary students on MIT's course 6.001 from the nefarious designs of Sergeant Spaghetticode and his vile concrete programming practices. See also spaghetti code.
- 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 dioxide snow — solid carbon dioxide, used as a refrigerant
- carbon steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
- cardbox for windows — (database) A database handling program, especially useful for scholars and librarians.
- caroline of ansbach — 1683–1737, wife of George II of Great Britain
- cash in one's chips — to turn in one's chips for their equivalent in money
- cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
- 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.
- castelnuovo-tedesco — Mario [mah-ryaw] /ˈmɑ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1968, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
- catch sb in the act — If you catch someone in the act, you discover them doing something wrong or committing a crime.
- catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
- 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.
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
- ch'in shih huang ti — Shih Huang Ti.
- champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
- champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
- 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
- chargeable transfer — a transfer of value made as a gift during a person's lifetime that is not covered by a specific exemption and therefore gives rise to liability under inheritance tax
- 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.
- checks and balances — competition and mutual restraint among the various branches of government
- chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
- chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
- chicken-fried steak — a cheap cut of beefsteak that is fried in batter
- chinese chippendale — a branch of Chippendale style in which Chinese styles and motifs are used
- 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 sacred lily — a Chinese amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta orientalis, widely grown as a house plant for its fragrant yellow and white flowers
- chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
- chlorofluorocarbons — Plural form of chlorofluorocarbon.
- 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 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).
- 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
- class consciousness — awareness of belonging to a particular social rank or grade
- classical economics — a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.