21-letter words containing a, n, t, i, r

fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
free-floating anxiety — chronic anxiety occurring for no identifiable cause
french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
full faith and credit — the obligation under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution for each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
functional illiterate — a person with some basic education who still falls short of a minimum standard of literacy or whose reading and writing skills are inadequate to everyday needs.
functional imperative — a requirement for the survival of any social system, as communication, control of conflict, or socialization.
gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
gaussian distribution — normal distribution
gender disappointment — a feeling of depression or anxiety experienced by an expectant parent when the gender of the baby does not match his or her preference
general court-martial — a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.
general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
generic type variable — (programming) (Also known as a "schematic type variable"). Different occurrences of a generic type variable in a type expression may be instantiated to different types. Thus, in the expression let id x = x in (id True, id 1) id's type is (for all a: a -> a). The universal quantifier "for all a:" means that a is a generic type variable. For the two uses of id, a is instantiated to Bool and Int. Compare this with let id x = x in let f g = (g True, g 1) in f id This looks similar but f has no legal Hindley-Milner type. If we say f :: (a -> b) -> (b, b) this would permit g's type to be any instance of (a -> b) rather than requiring it to be at least as general as (a -> b). Furthermore, it constrains both instances of g to have the same result type whereas they do not. The type variables a and b in the above are implicitly quantified at the top level: f :: for all a: for all b: (a -> b) -> (b, b) so instantiating them (removing the quantifiers) can only be done once, at the top level. To correctly describe the type of f requires that they be locally quantified: f :: ((for all a: a) -> (for all b: b)) -> (c, d) which means that each time g is applied, a and b may be instantiated differently. f's actual argument must have a type at least as general as ((for all a: a) -> (for all b: b)), and may not be some less general instance of this type. Type variables c and d are still implicitly quantified at the top level and, now that g's result type is a generic type variable, any types chosen for c and d are guaranteed to be instances of it. This type for f does not express the fact that b only needs to be at least as general as the types c and d. For example, if c and d were both Bool then any function of type (for all a: a -> Bool) would be a suitable argument to f but it would not match the above type for f.
get in someone's hair — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
gideons international — an interdenominational lay society organized in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
give sb a green light — If someone in authority gives you a green light, they give you permission to do something.
give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
glacier national park — a national park in NW Montana: glaciers; lakes; forest reserve. 1534 sq. mi. (3970 sq. km).
glen of imaal terrier — a strongly-built medium-sized variety of terrier with a medium-length coat and short forelegs
go (in) to bat for sb — If you go to bat for someone or go in to bat for them, you give them your support.
gold bullion standard — a gold standard in which gold is not coined but may be purchased at a fixed price for foreign exchange.
government in waiting — a political group which is hoping to be elected to govern in the near future
grammatical inference — Deducing a grammar from given examples. Also known as "inductive inference" and recently as "computational learning".
great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
greater sunda islands — a group of islands in the W Malay Archipelago, forming the larger part of the Sunda Islands: consists of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi
greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
gretna green marriage — marriage without parental consent; elopement.
ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm) A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
heliocentric parallax — the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
help a person on with — to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
home improvement loan — a government loan for house improvements such as insulation, adding a bathroom, or urgent repairs
horizontal stabilizer — the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged.
horizontal tabulation — (character) (tab, Control-I, HT, ASCII 9) A character which when displayed or printed causes the following character to be placed at the next "tabstop" - the column whose number is a multiple of the current tab width. Commonly (especially in Unix(?)) the tab width is eight, so, counting from the left margin (column zero), the tab stops are at columns 8, 16, 24, up to the width of the screen or page. A tab width of four or two is often preferred when indenting program source code to conserve indentation. Represented as "\t" in C, Unix, and derivatives.
human rights activist — a person who campaigns for human rights
hyperlipoproteinaemia — the condition of having an abnormally high level of lipoproteins in the blood
hysterosalpingography — (medicine) X-ray examination of the uterus and oviducts following injection of a radiopaque substance.
identical proposition — a proposition in which the subject and predicate have the same meaning, as, “That which is mortal is not immortal.”.
identification papers — documents that serve to establish someone's identity
identification parade — a group of persons including one suspected of having committed a crime assembled for the purpose of discovering whether a witness can identify the suspect
in (or out of) phase — in (or not in) a state of exactly parallel movements, oscillations, etc.; in (or not in) synchronization
in (or out of) place — in (or out of) the customary, proper, or assigned place
in a state of undress — If someone is in a state of undress, they do not have all their clothes on.
in co-ordination with — If you do something in co-ordination with someone else, you both organize your activities so that you work together efficiently.
in favor/out of favor — If someone or something is in favor, people like or support them. If they are out of favor, people no longer like or support them.
in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
in more ways than one — You say in more ways than one to indicate that what you have said is intended to have more than one meaning.
in no uncertain terms — If you say that someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, you are emphasizing that they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean.
in the first instance — You say in the first instance to mention something that is the first step in a series of actions.

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