19-letter words containing t, g, r, o
- bring into the open — to make evident or public
- building contractor — an individual or company that contracts for the construction of houses, etc
- bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
- 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)
- 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.
- carnot refrigerator — a device operating on the Carnot cycle in which the first temperature is higher than the second.
- cartilaginification — The formation of cartilage.
- catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
- category management — the management of a range of related products in a way designed to increase sales of all of the products
- catherine of aragon — 1485–1536, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I. The annulment of Henry's marriage to her (1533) against papal authority marked an initial stage in the English Reformation
- character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
- chromatographically — With regard to, or by by using chromatography.
- cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
- circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
- claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
- coefficient of drag — the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and surface area of the body.
- college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
- community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
- complementary angle — either of two angles whose sum is 90°
- complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
- comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
- computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
- computer programmer — a person whose job is to write computer programs
- 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
- contagious abortion — brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
- continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
- contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- contour integration — integration in the complex plane about a closed curve of finite length.
- contra-guide rudder — a rudder having a horizontal offset of its upper and lower halves to improve the flow characteristics of the propeller race.
- contract programmer — (job, programming) A programmer who works on a fixed-length or temporary contract, and is often employed to write certain types of code or to work on a specific project. Despite the fact that contractors usually cost more than hiring a permanent employee with the same skills, it is common for organisations to employ them for extended periods, sometimes renewing their contracts for many years, due to lack of certainty about the future or simple lack of planning. A contract programmer may be independent or they may work in a supplier's professional services department, providing consultancy and programming services for the supplier's products.
- contradistinguished — Simple past tense and past participle of contradistinguish.
- contradistinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contradistinguish.
- contributing factor — something that is partly responsible for a development or phenomenon
- convergent boundary — a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
- convergent sequence — fundamental sequence.
- convergent thinking — analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed, e.g. in arithmetic
- convergent-sequence — an infinite sequence, x 1 , x 2 , …, whose terms are points in Ek, in which there exists a point y such that the limit as n goes to infinity of xn = y if and only if for every ε>0, there exists a number N such that i > N and j > N implies | xi − xj |< ε. Also called Cauchy sequence, convergent sequence. Compare complete (def 10b).
- coordinate geometry — analytic geometry.
- corporate venturing — the provision of venture capital by one company for another in order to obtain information about the company requiring capital or as a step towards acquiring it
- counter-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- counter-programming — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- counterconditioning — the conditioning of a response that is incompatible with some previously learned response; for example, in psychotherapy an anxious person might be taught relaxation, which is incompatible with anxiety
- counterinsurgencies — Plural form of counterinsurgency.
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- counterpoise bridge — another name for bascule bridge
- countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
- creative accounting — Creative accounting is when companies present or organize their accounts in such a way that they gain money for themselves or give a false impression of their profits.