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19-letter words containing ne

  • caroline of ansbach — 1683–1737, wife of George II of Great Britain
  • cash in one's chips — to turn in one's chips for their equivalent in money
  • cast one's lot with — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
  • catch someone's eye — If something catches your eye, you suddenly notice it.
  • catherine of aragon — 1485–1536, first wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Mary I. The annulment of Henry's marriage to her (1533) against papal authority marked an initial stage in the English Reformation
  • catherine the great — (Sophia Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst"Catherine the Great") 1729–96, empress of Russia 1762–96.
  • cathodoluminescence — luminescence caused by irradiation with electrons (cathode rays)
  • cauchy's inequality — Schwarz inequality (def 1).
  • ceramic engineering — the branch of engineering concerned with the development and production of ceramics.
  • champagne corks pop — If you say that champagne corks are popping, you mean that people are celebrating something.
  • champagne lifestyle — a lifestyle involving the enjoyment of luxuries and expensive pleasures
  • champagne socialist — a professed socialist who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle
  • champigny-sur-marne — a suburb of Paris, on the River Marne. Pop: 75 556 (2006)
  • character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
  • chateauneuf-du-pape — a dry red or white wine from the Rhone valley near Avignon.
  • chinese chippendale — a branch of Chippendale style in which Chinese styles and motifs are used
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • chinese fleece-vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • chinese liver fluke — a parasitic Asian flatworm, Clonorchis sinensis, that infects the gastrointestinal tract and bile duct following ingestion of contaminated raw or insufficiently cooked freshwater fish.
  • chinese sacred lily — a Chinese amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta orientalis, widely grown as a house plant for its fragrant yellow and white flowers
  • chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
  • chlorofluoromethane — any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted with chlorine and fluorine and containing little or no hydrogen: used as refrigerants and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • 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 consciousness — awareness of belonging to a particular social rank or grade
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • come into one's own — to become fulfilled
  • command line option — (software)   (Or "option", "flag", "switch", "option switch") An argument to a command that modifies its function rather than providing data. Options generally start with "-" in Unix or "/" in MS-DOS. This is usually followed by a single letter or occasionally a digit. More recently, GNU software adopted the --longoptionname style, usually in addition to traditional, single-character, -x style equivalents. Some commands require each option to be a separate argument, introduced by a new "-" or "/", others allow multiple option letters to be concatenated into a single argument with a single "-" or "/", e.g. "ls -al". A few Unix commands (e.g. ar, tar) allow the "-" to be omitted. Some options may or must be followed by a value, e.g. "cc prog.c -o prog", sometimes with and sometimes without an intervening space.
  • communications zone — the area behind the combat zone
  • comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
  • confectioner's shop — a sweet shop
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • 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.
  • consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
  • container transport — the transport of cargo in containers
  • contemporaneousness — The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
  • continental climate — a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent
  • continental cuisine — a style of cooking that includes the better-known dishes of various western European countries.
  • continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
  • continental seating — a theater seating plan in which there is no center aisle, but with wide spacing between each row of seats to allow for ease of passage.
  • 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.
  • county commissioner — a member of an elected governing board in the counties of certain states of the U.S.
  • credit someone with — to believe that someone has or is responsible for; ascribe to someone
  • criminal negligence — negligence which is punishable under the law
  • crinoline stretcher — (on a Windsor chair) a stretcher having an inwardly curved piece connecting the front legs, and connected to the back legs by short, straight pieces.
  • cross one's fingers — to fold one finger across another in the hope of bringing good luck
  • cross-channel ferry — a ferry that transports passengers and vehicles across the English Channel
  • cudgel one's brains — to think hard about a problem
  • cup-and-saucer vine — a woody, Mexican vine, Cobaea scandens, of the phlox family, having bell-shaped, violet-colored or greenish-purple flowers with an inflated, leaflike calyx and long, curved stamens.
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