19-letter words containing o, i, l, e, r
- clockwork precision — regularity
- 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.
- collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
- collective behavior — the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.
- collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
- 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.
- come into the world — to be born
- 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.
- complete fertilizer — a fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three principal elements required for plant nutrition.
- complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
- compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
- compromise solution — a solution to a problem reached by compromise
- 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.
- convulsive disorder — any of various types of epilepsy.
- cordillera oriental — the eastern ranges of the Andes, in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- corrosive sublimate — mercuric chloride
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
- countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
- countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
- cracked gas cooling — Cracked gas cooling is a process in which the temperature of a cracked gas is reduced in order to separate it into different product streams.
- creeping cinquefoil — any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
- crinoline stretcher — (on a Windsor chair) a stretcher having an inwardly curved piece connecting the front legs, and connected to the back legs by short, straight pieces.
- cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
- crown green bowling — (in Britain) bowls played on a crown green