19-letter words containing y, n, e
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- 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).
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
- champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
- 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 dependency — addiction to drugs or alcohol.
- chinese sacred lily — a Chinese amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta orientalis, widely grown as a house plant for its fragrant yellow and white flowers
- chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
- christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
- cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
- 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)
- collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
- combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
- commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
- commitment ceremony — a ceremony and celebration that affirms the love and commitment between two people who cannot legally marry, typically a same-sex or transgender couple.
- 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
- 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.”.
- computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
- contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- 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.
- coordinate geometry — analytic geometry.
- count oneself lucky — If you say that someone can count themselves lucky, you mean that the situation they are in or the thing that has happened to them is better than it might have been or than they might have expected.
- counterpoint-rhythm — Music. the art of combining melodies.
- counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
- 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
- country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
- country-and-western — country music.
- county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
- cray research, inc. — (company) US manufacturer of large powerful mainframe supercomputers, co-founded by noted computer architect, Seymour Cray. Quarterly sales $216M, profits $8M (Aug 1994). Cray were bought by Silicon Graphics, Inc..
- cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel