19-letter words containing o, n, s, i

bloodstock industry — the breeding and training of racehorses
blow someone's mind — (of a drug, esp LSD) to alter someone's mental state
blow the whistle on — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
blue screen of life — (operating system) (BSOL, by analogy with "Blue Screen of Death") The opening screen of Microsoft Windows NT. This screen shows the file system loading, and any problems such as conversions from FAT to NTFS or a scan of a hard drive. The Blue Screen of Life occurs in one way, as opposed to the Blue Screen of Death, which can occur in many different ways and times.
blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
booker t washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
bordering countries — countries that share a border with a particular country
boundary commission — (in Britain) a body established by statute to undertake periodic reviews of the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies and to recommend changes to take account of population shifts
bracket abstraction — (compiler) An algorithm which turns a term into a function of some variable. The result of using bracket abstraction on T with respect to variable v, written as [v]T, is a term containing no occurrences of v and denoting a function f such that f v = T. This defines the function f = (\ v . T). Using bracket abstraction and currying we can define a language without bound variables in which the only operation is monadic function application. See combinator.
briggsian logarithm — common logarithm.
bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
brimstone butterfly — a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
cairngorm mountains — a mountain range of NE Scotland: part of the Grampians. Highest peak: Ben Macdui, 1309 m (4296 ft); designated a national park in 2003
california job case — a job case having sufficient spaces to contain both uppercase and lowercase letters and 37 additional characters of foundry type. Compare case2 (def 8).
california sea lion — any of several large eared seals, as Eumetopias jubatus (Steller's sea lion) of the northern Pacific, and Zalophus californicus (California sea lion) of the Pacific coast of North America.
cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
cape-disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
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
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.
cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
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
central reservation — The central reservation is the strip of ground, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a major road.
cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
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.
chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
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.
chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
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).
circle of confusion — a circular spot on a film, resulting from the degree to which a pencil of light reflected from the field of view is focused in front of or behind the film, or from aberration of the lens, or from both.
cisco systems, inc. — (company) Ethernet hardware manufacturers. Address: 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA. Telephone: +1 408 526 4000, +1 800 553 6387. Fax: +1 408 526 4100.
city of seven hills — Rome2
city of westminster — a borough of Greater London, on the River Thames: contains the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. Pop: 222 000 (2003 est). Area: 22 sq km (8 sq miles)
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.
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

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