21-letter words containing s, o, c, i, t
- continental breakfast — A continental breakfast is breakfast that consists of food such as bread, butter, jam, and a hot drink. There is no cooked food.
- continuing resolution — legislation enacted by Congress to allow government operations to continue until the regular appropriations are enacted: used when action on appropriations is not completed by the beginning of a fiscal year.
- continuous assessment — If pupils or students undergo continuous assessment, they get qualifications partly or entirely based on the work they do during the year, rather than on exam results.
- continuous processing — the systems in a plant or factory for the manufacturing of products, treating of materials, etc, that have been designed to run continuously and are often computer-controlled
- continuous stationery — paper that is perforated between pages and folded concertina fashion, used in dot-matrix, line, and daisywheel printers
- convertible insurance — any form of life or health insurance, either individual or group, that enables the insured to change or convert the insurance to another form, as term to whole life insurance or group to individual health insurance.
- coquilles st. jacques — an appetizer of minced scallops in a wine and cream sauce topped with grated cheese and browned under a broiler: usually served in scallop shells.
- coronal mass ejection — a cloud of particles ejected from the sun's surface during a solar flare
- corporate hospitality — Corporate hospitality is the entertainment that a company offers to its most valued clients, for example by inviting them to sporting events and providing them with food and drink.
- corpuscular radiation — radiation consisting of atomic and subatomic particles, as alpha particles, beta particles, and neutrons.
- corrupt practices act — any of several U.S. statutes for ensuring the purity of elections by forbidding the purchase of votes, restricting the amount and source of political contributions, limiting campaign expenditures, and requiring the submission of an itemized statement of such expenditures.
- cosmological argument — one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause
- cosmological constant — a term introduced by Einstein into his field equations of general relativity to permit a stationary, nonexpanding universe: it has since been abandoned in most models of the universe.
- cosmological redshift — the part of the redshift of celestial objects resulting from the expansion of the universe.
- cost driver attribute — (programming) Factors affecting the productivity of software development. These include attributes of the software, computers, personnel, and project.
- cost-benefit analysis — an analysis that takes into account the costs of a project and its benefits to society, as well as the revenue it generates
- cottony-cushion scale — a small scale insect, Icerya purchasi, that is a pest of citrus trees in California: it is controlled by introducing an Australian ladybird, Rodolia cardinalis, into affected areas
- counsel of perfection — excellent but unrealizable advice
- count of monte cristo — a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
- criminal conversation — (formerly) a common law action brought by a husband by which he claimed damages against an adulterer
- crittenden compromise — a series of constitutional amendments proposed in Congress in 1860 to serve as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions, one of which would have permitted slavery in the territories south but not north of latitude 36°30′N.
- crool someone's pitch — to spoil an opportunity for someone
- crystallographic axis — one of the imaginary reference lines passing through the center of an ideal crystal, designated a, b, or c.
- customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
- cut-through switching — (networking) The application of wormhole routing to packets in a packet switching system so that forwarding of a packet starts as soon as its destination is known, before the whole packet has arrived. Compare store and forward.
- dacryocystorhinostomy — A surgical procedure to restore the flow of tears into the nose from the lacrimal sac when the nasolacrimal duct does not function.
- de-ontological ethics — the branch of ethics dealing with right action and the nature of duty, without regard to the goodness or value of motives or the desirability of the ends of any act.
- democratic centralism — the Leninist principle that policy should be decided centrally by officials, who are nominally democratically elected
- denominational school — a school associated with a particular religious denomination
- department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
- deployment descriptor — (programming) (DD) A J2EE configuration file.
- deprovincialization's — to make provincial in character.
- diapason normal pitch — a standard of pitch in which A above middle C is established at 435 vibrations per second.
- diffusion coefficient — the rate at which a diffusing substance is transported between opposite faces of a unit cube of a system when there is unit concentration difference between them
- digital videocassette — a videocassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of video. Abbreviation: DVC.
- discretionary account — an account in which the stockbroker is allowed complete control over the purchase and sale of securities on the customer's behalf.
- discriminant function — a linear function of measurements of different properties of an object or event that is used to assign the object or event to one population or another (discriminant analysis)
- disruptive technology — A disruptive technology is a new technology, such as computers and the Internet, which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that existed before.
- dissociative disorder — a mental disorder, as multiple personality, characterized by sudden temporary alteration in consciousness, identity, or motor behavior.
- distinctiveness ratio — the ratio of the relative frequency of some event in a given sample to that in the general population or another relevant sample
- distributed processes — (DP) The first concurrent language based on remote procedure calls.
- distribution function — (of any random variable) the function that assigns to each number the probability that the random variable takes a value less than or equal to the given number.
- eccles-jordan circuit — flip-flop
- educational sociology — the application of sociological principles and methods to the solution of problems in an educational system.
- electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
- electronic publishing — Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM.
- emotional correctness — pressure on an individual to be seen to feel the same emotion as others
- endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
- ethics of the fathers — a treatise of the Mishnah that comprises six chapters and consists chiefly of proverbs, aphorisms, and principles of ethics, law, and religion.