19-letter words containing y, o, i
- blowing your buffer — (jargon) Losing your train of thought. A reference to buffer overflow.
- boundary commission — (in Britain) a body established by statute to undertake periodic reviews of the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies and to recommend changes to take account of population shifts
- bright young things — young, fun-loving, fashionable upper-class people, esp of the 1920s
- brimstone butterfly — a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
- buy a pig in a poke — to buy, get, or agree to something without sight or knowledge of it in advance
- calcium oxychloride — a white powder that decomposes on contact with water and has the characteristic odor of gaseous chlorine: regarded, when dry, as a mixed calcium hypochlorite-chloride, used as a commercial bleach for wood pulp, textiles, oils, and soaps, and in laundering as a decolorizer and disinfectant.
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- 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.
- 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.
- chief petty officer — the senior naval rank for personnel without commissioned or warrant rank
- cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
- choledocholithotomy — The removal of the gallstone from the bile duct in a case of choledocholithiasis.
- chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
- 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.
- 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)
- clinical psychology — the branch of psychology that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation
- 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.
- collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
- collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
- 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
- compact disc player — a machine for playing compact discs
- compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
- 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.
- 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.
- counterpoint-rhythm — Music. the art of combining melodies.