19-letter words containing a, e, o, n, i, c
- electrostatic units — the system of CGS electric and magnetic units that assigns the value of one to the dielectric constant of a vacuum
- emotional blackmail — a way of persuading someone to do something they do not want to do by making them feel guilty about it
- enabling technology — technology that enables the user to perform a task or to improve his or her overall performance: e.g. the internet
- endowment insurance — Endowment insurance is a type of life insurance that pays a particular sum directly to the policyholder at a stated date, or to a beneficiary if the policyholder dies before this date.
- energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
- engineering factory — a factory where engineering products are made
- entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
- euclidean algorithm — Euclid's Algorithm
- european commission — the executive body of the European Union formed in 1967, which initiates action in the EU and mediates between member governments
- evaporative cooling — a method of reducing temperature that uses evaporation
- exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
- expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
- expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
- exterior decoration — the painting of the outside of a building
- false consciousness — a Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are; the hypothesized inability of the human mind to develop a sophisticated awareness of how it is developed and shaped by circumstances.
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- feast of dedication — Hanukkah.
- female circumcision — clitoridectomy.
- first-sale doctrine — a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
- fixed cost contract — a contract in which the costs do not vary
- fixed-term contract — a contract for a particular and fixed period
- flag of convenience — the foreign flag under which merchant ships register in order to save on taxes or wages, or to avoid government regulations.
- forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- fortification agate — an agate, used as a gem, having polygonal banding such that it suggests the plan of a bastion.
- foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
- french north africa — the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia
- front-end financing — money or costs required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
- functional database — (database, language) A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
- functional language — (language) A language that supports and encourages functional programming.
- functional medicine — individualized medical care that recognizes the interactions between genetic and environmental factors and between the body's interconnected systems.
- galactic coordinate — Usually, galactic coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates that define the position of a celestial body with reference to the Milky Way.
- gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
- gastroenterocolitis — (medicine) inflammation of the stomach, small intestines, and colon.
- gastroenterological — Of or pertaining to gastroenterology.
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- generic array logic — (hardware, integrated circuit) (GAL) A newer kind of Programmable Array Logic based on EEPROM storage cells, been pioneered by Lattice. GALs can be erased and reprogrammed and usually replace a whole set of different PALs (hence the name).
- generic programming — (programming) A programming technique which aims to make programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic programs are often quite rich in structure. For example they may be other programs, types or type constructors or even programming paradigms.
- genetic programming — (programming) (GP) A programming technique which extends the genetic algorithm to the domain of whole computer programs. In GP, populations of programs are genetically bred to solve problems. Genetic programming can solve problems of system identification, classification, control, robotics, optimisation, game playing, and pattern recognition. Starting with a primordial ooze of hundreds or thousands of randomly created programs composed of functions and terminals appropriate to the problem, the population is progressively evolved over a series of generations by applying the operations of Darwinian fitness proportionate reproduction and crossover (sexual recombination).
- geocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
- geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
- gestational carrier — surrogate mother (def 3).
- gigabits per second — (unit) (Gbps) A unit of information transfer rate equal to one billion bits per second. Note that, while a gigabit is defined as a power of two (2^30 bits), a gigabit per second is defined as a power of ten (10^9 bits per second, which is slightly less) than 2^30).
- grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
- great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- gregorian telescope — a telescope similar in design to the Cassegrainian telescope but less widely used.
- grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.