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19-letter words containing co

  • communications port — (hardware, communications)   A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
  • communications zone — the area behind the combat zone
  • communion of saints — the spiritual fellowship of all true Christians, living and dead
  • communist manifesto — a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles
  • 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 disc writer — (storage)   (CD burner) A device that can write data to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc Rewritable (CD-RW) discs. Now both these CD formats are often combined with a DVD writer.
  • compact disk player — a device for playing compact disks.
  • comparison shopping — Comparison shopping is comparing similar products from different stores or suppliers. Comparison shopping services are popular on the Internet.
  • compassionate leave — Compassionate leave is time away from your work that your employer allows you for personal reasons, especially when a member of your family dies or is seriously ill.
  • competitive bidding — a system by which a contract is awarded to the lowest bidder
  • complement fixation — the fixing of complement into the product of an antigen-antibody reaction: used as an infection indicator in certain serologic tests that measure the presence or absence of free, active complement
  • complement-sentence — a subordinate clause that functions as the subject, direct object, or prepositional object of a verb, as that you like it in I'm surprised that you like it.
  • 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.
  • complete fertilizer — a fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three principal elements required for plant nutrition.
  • complete quadrangle — a plane figure consisting of four points connected by six lines
  • 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.”.
  • compound microscope — an instrument for magnifying small objects, consisting of a lens of short focal length for forming an image that is further magnified by a second lens of longer focal length
  • compression molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic by closing a mold on it, forming the material by heat and pressure.
  • compromise solution — a solution to a problem reached by compromise
  • comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
  • compulsory purchase — purchase of a house or other property by a local authority or government department for public use or to make way for development, regardless of whether or not the owner wishes to sell
  • computed tomography — computerized axial tomography. Abbreviation: CT.
  • computer dictionary — Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  • computer peripheral — a device that is attached to and controlled by a computer, such as a scanner, printer, or external hard drive
  • computer programmer — a person whose job is to write computer programs
  • computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
  • computer-controlled — controlled by computers, esp without direct human intervention
  • conceptualistically — In a conceptualistic sense.
  • concertina movement — a principle of table construction in which hinged sections of the frame, ordinarily folded inward out of sight, can be pulled into line with the parts of the frame ordinarily seen to permit the addition of leaves.
  • concours d'elegance — a parade of cars or other vehicles, prizes being awarded to the most elegant, best designed, or best turned-out
  • concurrentsmalltalk — (language)   A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
  • confectioner's shop — a sweet shop
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • confession of faith — a formal public avowal of religious beliefs
  • confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
  • confocal microscope — a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained
  • congestion charging — the practice of charging motorists for the right to drive on busy roads, esp at busy times
  • connecticut warbler — a North American wood warbler, Oporornis agilis, olive-green above with a gray head and throat and yellow below.
  • connection-oriented — (networking)   (Or connection-based, stream-oriented). A type of transport layer data communication service that allows a host to send data in a continuous stream to another host. The transport service will guarantee that all data will be delivered to the other end in the same order as sent and without duplication. Communication proceeds through three well-defined phases: connection establishment, data transfer, connection release. The most common example is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), another is ATM. The network nodes at either end needs to inform all intermediate nodes about their service requirements and traffic parameters in order to establish communication. Opposite of connectionless, datagram. See also circuit switching, packet switching, virtual circuit.
  • conscience-stricken — feeling anxious or guilty
  • consolidated school — a public school attended by pupils from several adjoining, esp. rural, districts
  • constitution mirror — an oblong Chippendale mirror, usually of mahogany or walnut with gilt detail, having a frame with a fanciful outline emphasized by a raised molding that is topped with a scrolled broken pediment with a central finial, often in the form of a bird.
  • construction worker — a person who works in the construction industry, esp one engaged in manual work
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
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