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

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
brush-tailed possum — any of several widely-distributed Australian possums of the genus Trichosurus
business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
butabarbital sodium — a barbiturate, C 10 H 15 N 2 NaO 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.
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
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 steel piping — Carbon steel piping is pipes made of steel with carbon as the main alloying component, used for transporting fluids.
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.
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 deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
characteristic root — a scalar for which there exists a nonzero vector such that the scalar times the vector equals the value of the vector under a given linear transformation on a vector space.
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
chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
choledocholithiasis — The presence of gallstones in the common bile duct.
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).
chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
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
classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
client-server model — client-server
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.
coca colonization's — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
collision detection — (networking) A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
come into one's own — to become fulfilled
come to sb's notice — If something comes to your notice, you become aware of it.
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.
commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
communications port — (hardware, communications) A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
communications zone — the area behind the combat zone
communion of saints — the spiritual fellowship of all true Christians, living and dead

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