19-letter words containing t, s
- catch sb in the act — If you catch someone in the act, you discover them doing something wrong or committing a crime.
- catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
- cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
- cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
- celestial hierarchy — hierarchy (def 6).
- 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
- celestial mechanics — the study of the motion of celestial bodies under the influence of gravitational fields
- 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.
- 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.
- ch'in shih huang ti — Shih Huang Ti.
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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 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.
- chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
- 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).
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- cisco systems, inc. — (company) Ethernet hardware manufacturers. Address: 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA. Telephone: +1 408 526 4000, +1 800 553 6387. Fax: +1 408 526 4100.
- city of seven hills — Rome2
- city of westminster — a borough of Greater London, on the River Thames: contains the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. Pop: 222 000 (2003 est). Area: 22 sq km (8 sq miles)
- claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
- claims notification — Claims notification is the process of informing an insurance company that a loss has occurred and that the policyholder intends to ask for money as a result.
- clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
- class action (suit) — a legal action brought by one or more persons on behalf of themselves and a much larger group, all of whom have the same grounds for action
- 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.
- client-server model — client-server
- co-respondent shoes — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- 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.
- coca colonization's — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
- cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
- cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
- 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.
- collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
- collision detection — (networking) A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
- come into one's own — to become fulfilled
- come to sb's notice — If something comes to your notice, you become aware of it.