19-letter words containing ci
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- lucia di lammermoor — an opera (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
- luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
- malicious falsehood — a lie told by someone who knows the lie is false or knows it will do harm to the person it is concerning
- metaphosphoric acid — an acid, HPO 3 , derived from phosphorous pentoxide, and containing the smallest amount of water of the phosphoric acids.
- molar heat capacity — the heat capacity of one mole of a substance.
- municipal bond fund — a mutual fund that invests in municipal bonds.
- north pacific ocean — the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, extending from the equator to the Arctic Ocean.
- on one's conscience — causing feelings of guilt or remorse
- oscillating circuit — a circuit producing electrical oscillations.
- over-commercialized — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- participatory sport — a sport in which people take part, (as opposed to a spectator sport)
- pedestrian precinct — A pedestrian precinct is a street or part of a town where vehicles are not allowed.
- peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
- physician assistant — a person trained and certified to perform various medical procedures under the supervision of a physician
- political scientist — A political scientist is someone who studies, writes, or lectures about political science.
- political-scientist — a social science dealing with political institutions and with the principles and conduct of government.
- polycarboxylic acid — a type of carboxylic acid containing two or more carboxyl groups
- polyphosphoric acid — any one of a series of oxyacids of phosphorus with the general formula Hn+2PnO3n+1. The first member is pyrophosphoric acid (n = 2) and the series includes the highly polymeric metaphosphoric acid. The higher acids exist in an equilibrium mixture
- preventive medicine — the branch of medical science that deals with prevention of disease.
- pyrophosphoric acid — a crystalline, water-soluble powder, H 4 P 2 O 7 , formed by the union of one molecule of phosphorus pentoxide with two molecules of water.
- reciprocal exchange — an unincorporated association formed so that its members can participate in reciprocal insurance.
- reciprocal leveling — leveling between two widely separated points in which observations are made in both directions to eliminate the effects of atmospheric refraction and the curvature of the earth.
- reciprocity failure — a failure of the two exposure variables, light intensity and exposure time, to behave in a reciprocal fashion at very high or very low values
- resorcinolphthalein — fluorescein.
- right circular cone — a cone whose surface is generated by lines joining a fixed point to the points of a circle, the fixed point lying on a perpendicular through the center of the circle.
- rock-paper-scissors — a method of selecting, for example, which of two people perform a task: each person simultaneously makes one of three hand gestures representing a rock, a sheet of paper, and a pair of scissors respectively. Each gesture defeats one and is defeated by one of the other two: rock defeats scissors but is defeated by paper; paper defeats rock but is defeated by scissors. The person whose gesture defeats the other is selected
- saccharolactic acid — mucic acid.
- san francisco peaks — a mountain mass in N Arizona: highest point in the state, Humphrey's Peak, 12,611 feet (3845 meters).
- scientific notation — a method for expressing a given quantity as a number having significant digits necessary for a specified degree of accuracy, multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power, as 1385.62 written as 1.386 × 10 3 .
- seleucia tracheotis — an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)
- setting-up exercise — any of a set of exercises, as deep knee bends and push-ups, for improving one's posture, muscle tone, or limberness, or for reducing one's weight.
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- social anthropology — study of human culture
- social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
- social organization — the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.
- social security act — a law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation, and federal grants for state welfare programs.
- socialized medicine — any of various systems to provide the entire population with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health services.
- south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
- south san francisco — a city in central California.
- special air service — a regiment in the British Army specializing in clandestine operations
- special partnership — limited partnership.
- specialized subject — a school or university subject that concentrates on a particular field of knowledge
- specific characters — the persistent features that distinguish one species from all others
- specific resistance — resistivity (def 2).
- specific-resistance — the power or property of resistance.
- substitution cipher — a cipher that replaces letters of the plain text with another set of letters or symbols.
- take one's medicine — any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
- tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
- terminating decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).