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19-letter words containing o, c, t, n, a, r

  • 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.
  • christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
  • 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).
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • 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
  • cloakroom attendant — a person whose job is to check coats and other personal items for visitors to a place
  • cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
  • cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
  • 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.
  • coherent parallel c — (language)   A data parallel version of C.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • complementary angle — either of two angles whose sum is 90°
  • complementary color — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
  • complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
  • complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
  • comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
  • computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  • computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
  • concertina movement — a principle of table construction in which hinged sections of the frame, ordinarily folded inward out of sight, can be pulled into line with the parts of the frame ordinarily seen to permit the addition of leaves.
  • concurrentsmalltalk — (language)   A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • 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
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • 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
  • consumer resistance — the unwillingness of consumers to adopt a particular product, service, or change
  • contagious abortion — brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
  • container transport — the transport of cargo in containers
  • contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
  • contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
  • continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
  • continuous creation — the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe
  • 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.
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