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19-letter words containing s, e, c, t, a, o

  • bicarbonate of soda — Bicarbonate of soda is a white powder which is used in baking to make cakes rise, and also as a medicine for your stomach.
  • black forest gateau — a chocolate sponge cake containing morello cherries and whipped cream, with a topping of chocolate icing
  • blackstrap molasses — the molasses remaining after the maximum quantity of sugar has been extracted from the raw material
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • business accounting — the keeping of detailed accounts relating to a business or businesses
  • buster brown collar — a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.
  • camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
  • cannot help oneself — to be the victim of circumstances, a habit, etc.
  • cape-disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
  • 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.
  • cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
  • 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.
  • castelnuovo-tedesco — Mario [mah-ryaw] /ˈmɑ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1968, U.S. composer, born in Italy.
  • catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
  • 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.
  • christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • coded character set — (character, standard)   A mapping, generally 1:1, from a set of integers, known as character codes or code positions, to a set of characters that may include letters, digits, punctuation, control codes, mathematical and typographic symbols. There are several standard coded character sets, the most widely used is ASCII, generally in its Latin-1 dialect, with Unicode becoming slowly more common; while EBCDIC and Baudot are extinct except in legacy systems.
  • come to the surface — to emerge; become apparent
  • 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 zone — the area behind the combat zone
  • communist manifesto — a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles
  • 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 disc writer — (storage)   (CD burner) A device that can write data to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc Rewritable (CD-RW) discs. Now both these CD formats are often combined with a DVD writer.
  • compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
  • compassionate leave — Compassionate leave is time away from your work that your employer allows you for personal reasons, especially when a member of your family dies or is seriously ill.
  • complexity analysis — In sructured program design, a quality-control operation that counts the number of "compares" in the logic implementing a function; a value of less than 10 is considered acceptable.
  • 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
  • conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
  • concurrentsmalltalk — (language)   A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • confession of faith — a formal public avowal of religious beliefs
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