19-letter words containing s, e, r, n, a
- by one's bootstraps — by one's own efforts; unaided
- 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.
- canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- 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.
- 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.
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- cerebrospinal fluid — the clear colourless fluid in the spaces inside and around the spinal cord and brain
- champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
- 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
- chargeable transfer — a transfer of value made as a gift during a person's lifetime that is not covered by a specific exemption and therefore gives rise to liability under inheritance tax
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- common area charges — (in the US) charges paid by tenants for the maintenance of the common areas of a block of flats
- commonsense realism — naive realism.
- community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
- 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
- concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
- concurrentsmalltalk — (language) A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
- 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
- container transport — the transport of cargo in containers
- contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
- continuous creation — the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.