19-letter words containing r, a, i, n, s
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- 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
- central reservation — The central reservation is the strip of ground, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a major road.
- centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
- cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
- champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
- chandrasekhar limit — the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf, equal to 1.44 solar masses. A star having a mass above this limit will continue to collapse to form a neutron star
- 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.
- chicken-fried steak — a cheap cut of beefsteak that is fried in batter
- chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
- chinese sacred lily — a Chinese amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta orientalis, widely grown as a house plant for its fragrant yellow and white flowers
- 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.
- christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
- christian scientist — a believer in Christian Science; a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
- 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).
- claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
- clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
- classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
- clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
- clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
- collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
- commission merchant — a person who buys or sells goods for others on a commission basis
- commonsense realism — naive realism.
- communications port — (hardware, communications) A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
- community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
- comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
- complimentary close — the part of a letter that by convention immediately precedes the signature, as “Very truly yours,” “Cordially,” or “Sincerely yours.”.
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
- 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
- congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
- 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
- continuous creation — the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
- contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.