19-letter words containing la
- bulbourethral gland — Cowper's gland
- buster brown collar — a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.
- calculate a premium — If you calculate a premium, you decide how much a policyholder has to pay for insurance cover.
- calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
- camouflage passport — a passport from a non-existent country intended to conceal the bearer's true nationality (from hijackers, kidnappers, etc)
- cap-de-la-madeleine — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Three Rivers, on the St. Lawrence.
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- cartilaginification — The formation of cartilage.
- cask of amontillado — a short story (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- caterpillar tractor — a tractor powered by a Caterpillar track
- cerebellar syndrome — a disease of the cerebellum characterized by unsteady movements and mispronunciation of words
- champion of england — a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion) or the queen (Queen's Champion) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.
- checks and balances — competition and mutual restraint among the various branches of government
- chloroplatinic acid — a red-brown, crystalline, water-soluble solid, H 2 PtCl 6 ⋅6H 2 O, used chiefly in platinizing glass, metals, and ceramic ware.
- chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
- circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
- circulating capital — the non-permanent raw materials and operating expenses that are used up to produce other goods or services
- circulating decimal — repeating decimal
- circulating library — a small library circulated in turn to a group of schools or other institutions
- circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
- claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
- claims notification — Claims notification is the process of informing an insurance company that a loss has occurred and that the policyholder intends to ask for money as a result.
- clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
- class action (suit) — a legal action brought by one or more persons on behalf of themselves and a much larger group, all of whom have the same grounds for action
- class consciousness — awareness of belonging to a particular social rank or grade
- classical economics — a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.
- classical mechanics — the study of mechanics using Newton's laws rather than quantum theory and relativity
- classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
- common-law marriage — a marriage deemed to exist after a couple have cohabited for several years
- 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.
- computer simulation — an event, process, or scenario that is created on a computer
- contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
- continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
- cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
- countersurveillance — The art of evading surveillance.
- cultural relativism — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
- cultural relativity — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
- cultural-relativism — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
- cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
- customs declaration — a form declaring the nature and value of goods, etc, for customs purposes
- customs regulations — the regulations relating to customs in a particular country
- dancing-lady orchid — any of numerous epiphytic orchids of the genus Oncidium, often grown as houseplants.
- declaration of love — a statement made by one person to another in which they say they are in love with the other person
- declare an interest — to make known one's connection, esp a prejudicial connection, with an affair
- deflate compression — deflate
- deflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- department of labor — the department of the U.S. federal government that promotes and improves the welfare, opportunities, and working conditions of wage earners. Abbreviation: DOL.
- diamond-leaf laurel — a tree, Pittosporum rhombifolium, of Australia, having coarsely toothed, oval or diamond-shaped leaves and white flowers, widely planted as an ornamental in the southwestern U.S.