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19-letter words containing ti

  • calculating machine — calculator (sense 3)
  • capacitive coupling — the connection of two or more circuits by means of a capacitor.
  • captain abstraction — The champion of the principles of abstraction and modularity, who protects unwary students on MIT's course 6.001 from the nefarious designs of Sergeant Spaghetticode and his vile concrete programming practices. See also spaghetti code.
  • cartilaginification — The formation of cartilage.
  • cask of amontillado — a short story (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • 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.
  • cathodic protection — a technique for protecting metal structures, such as steel ships and pipelines, from electrolytic corrosion by making the structure the cathode in a cell, either by applying an electromotive force directly or by putting it into contact with a more electropositive metal
  • celestial hierarchy — hierarchy (def 6).
  • celestial longitude — the angular distance measured eastwards from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the ecliptic with the great circle passing through a celestial body and the poles of the ecliptic
  • celestial mechanics — the study of the motion of celestial bodies under the influence of gravitational fields
  • central reservation — The central reservation is the strip of ground, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a major road.
  • centrifugal casting — casting that utilizes centrifugal force within a spinning mold to force the metal against the walls.
  • ch'in shih huang ti — Shih Huang Ti.
  • chain-reacting pile — nuclear reactor
  • chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
  • characteristic root — a scalar for which there exists a nonzero vector such that the scalar times the vector equals the value of the vector under a given linear transformation on a vector space.
  • chemical castration — the use of drugs to reduce libido
  • cherenkov radiation — the electromagnetic radiation produced when a charged particle moves through a medium at a greater velocity than the velocity of light in that medium
  • 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.
  • chrestien de troyes — c1140–c90, French poet.
  • christian democracy — the beliefs, principles, practices, or programme of a Christian Democratic party
  • christian scientist — a believer in Christian Science; a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
  • christian socialist — a member of any of certain European political parties advocating a form of social organization based on Christian and socialistic principles.
  • 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
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • coca colonization's — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
  • collective behavior — the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.
  • collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
  • collision detection — (networking)   A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with another host's. If a collision is detected then the data must be resent. The resending algorithm should try to minimise the chance that two hosts's data will repeatedly collide. For example, the CSMA/CD protocol used on Ethernet specifies that they should then wait for a random time before re-transmitting. See also backoff. This contrasts with slotted protocols and token passing.
  • colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
  • combination therapy — a therapy that combines two or more drugs, or two or more treatments
  • come to sb's notice — If something comes to your notice, you become aware of it.
  • 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 port — (hardware, communications)   A connector for a communications interface, usually, a serial port.
  • communications zone — the area behind the combat zone
  • community education — the provision of a wide range of educational and special interest courses and activities by a local authority
  • community relations — the particular state of affairs in an area where potentially conflicting ethnic, religious, cultural, political, or linguistic groups live together
  • 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
  • complete fertilizer — a fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three principal elements required for plant nutrition.
  • compromise solution — a solution to a problem reached by compromise
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