19-letter words containing o, u, t, r
- bloodstock industry — the breeding and training of racehorses
- blue stellar object — any of a class of blue celestial objects, at one time thought to be stars, that do not emit appreciable radio waves. Abbreviation: BSO.
- blue-ringed octopus — a highly venomous octopus, Octopus maculosus, of E Australia which exhibits blue bands on its tentacles when disturbed
- blue-tongued lizard — a large Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, characterized by having a cobalt-blue tongue.
- board of trade unit — a unit of electrical energy equal to 1 kilowatt-hour
- bordering countries — countries that share a border with a particular country
- born out of wedlock — born when one's parents are not legally married
- 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
- building contractor — an individual or company that contracts for the construction of houses, etc
- bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
- buster brown collar — a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.
- 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
- camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
- 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.
- center of curvature — the center of the circle of curvature.
- centre of curvature — the point on the normal at a given point on a curve on the concave side of the curve whose distance from the point on the curve is equal to the radius of curvature
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- chemolithoautotroph — (biology) A chemoautotroph or lithoautotroph.
- chlorofluoromethane — any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted with chlorine and fluorine and containing little or no hydrogen: used as refrigerants and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
- circle of curvature — the circle with its center on the normal to the concave side of a curve at a given point on the curve and with its radius equal to the radius of curvature at the point.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
- columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
- come to the surface — to emerge; become apparent
- comminuted fracture — a fracture in which the bone is splintered or fragmented
- 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
- complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
- compromise solution — a solution to a problem reached by compromise
- computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
- computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- computer peripheral — a device that is attached to and controlled by a computer, such as a scanner, printer, or external hard drive
- computer programmer — a person whose job is to write computer programs
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- computer-controlled — controlled by computers, esp without direct human intervention
- concurrentsmalltalk — (language) A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
- connecticut warbler — a North American wood warbler, Oporornis agilis, olive-green above with a gray head and throat and yellow below.
- constitution mirror — an oblong Chippendale mirror, usually of mahogany or walnut with gilt detail, having a frame with a fanciful outline emphasized by a raised molding that is topped with a scrolled broken pediment with a central finial, often in the form of a bird.
- construction worker — a person who works in the construction industry, esp one engaged in manual work
- 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