19-letter words containing y, a, t
- bottomhole assembly — The bottomhole assembly is the lower part of a drill string, which has the drill bit and mud motor.
- bug tracking system — (programming) (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.
- by one's bootstraps — by one's own efforts; unaided
- cable-stayed bridge — a type of suspension bridge in which the supporting cables are connected directly to the bridge deck without the use of suspenders
- cannot very well do — If you say that you cannot very well do something, you mean that it would not be right or possible to do it.
- canterbury pilgrims — the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- capacity attendance — a situation when a venue for an event is as full as it can be
- captain of industry — You can refer to the owners or senior managers of industrial companies as captains of industry.
- catalytic converter — A catalytic converter is a device which is fitted to a car's exhaust to reduce the pollution coming from it.
- catalytic reforming — Catalytic reforming is a process that converts petroleum refinery naphthas to high-octane blending components.
- catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
- category management — the management of a range of related products in a way designed to increase sales of all of the products
- cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
- celestial hierarchy — hierarchy (def 6).
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- 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.
- cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
- christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
- chromatographically — With regard to, or by by using chromatography.
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
- circulating library — a small library circulated in turn to a group of schools or other institutions
- 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.
- 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.
- college-preparatory — preparing a student for academic work at the college level.
- combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
- common iliac artery — iliac artery (def 1).
- common-iliac-artery — Also called common iliac artery. either of two large arteries that conduct blood to the pelvis and the legs.
- community education — the provision of a wide range of educational and special interest courses and activities by a local authority
- community policeman — a police officer assigned to a particular area
- community programme — (in Britain) a former government scheme to provide temporary work for people unemployed for over a year
- 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 disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
- complementary angle — either of two angles whose sum is 90°
- complementary color — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
- 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.”.
- computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
- computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
- continuity equation — the mathematical statement in fluid mechanics that, for a fluid passing through a tube in a steady flow, the mass flowing through any section of the tube in a unit of time is constant.
- contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
- convective activity — any manifestation of convection in the atmosphere, as hail or thunderstorms.
- conventional memory — (storage) The first 640 kilobytes of an IBM PC's memory. Prior to EMS, XMS, and HMA, real mode application could use only this part of the memory.
- convergent boundary — a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
- cooperative society — a commercial enterprise owned and managed by and for the benefit of customers or workers
- coordinate geometry — analytic geometry.
- coronary thrombosis — A coronary thrombosis is the same as a coronary.