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19-letter words containing a, t, i, u, d, n

  • longitudinal parity — (storage, communications)   An extra byte (or word) appended to a block of data in order to reveal corruption of the data. Bit n of this byte indicates whether there was an even or odd number of "1" bits in bit position n of the bytes in the block. The parity byte is computed by XORing the data bytes in the block. Longitudinal parity allows single bit errors to be detected.
  • maturation division — a stage in meiosis during which the chromosomal number of the reproductive cell is reduced to one chromosome from each original chromosome pair.
  • means of production — resources: equipment, workers
  • mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
  • midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
  • missing fundamental — a tone, not present in the sound received by the ear, whose pitch is that of the difference between the two tones that are sounded
  • mount desert island — an island off the coast of E central Maine: summer resort; forms part of Acadia National Park. 14 miles (23 km) long; 8 miles (13 km) wide.
  • multidimensionality — The property of being multidimensional.
  • multimedia analysis — Multimedia analysis is the consideration of all possible risks relating to pollution and waste management.
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
  • non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • nonproprietary drug — A nonproprietary drug is a generic drug that is essentially similar to a drug with a brand name.
  • normal distribution — a theoretical frequency distribution represented by a normal curve.
  • nuclear disarmament — the gradual reduction and eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world
  • occupational hazard — a danger or hazard to workers that is inherent in a particular occupation: Silicosis is an occupational hazard of miners.
  • old spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • orthopaedic surgeon — a surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
  • out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
  • oxidation-reduction — a chemical reaction between two substances in which one substance is oxidized and the other reduced.
  • parliament building — structure housing legislative offices
  • pecuniary advantage — financial advantage that is dishonestly obtained by deception and that constitutes a criminal offence
  • perpetual adoration — uninterrupted adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
  • preproduction trial — a trial to test a prototype of a product before the product goes into full-scale production
  • production platform — offshore power station
  • proto-indo-european — the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Indo-European languages; Indo-European.
  • pseudo-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • pseudo-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
  • pseudo-intellectual — a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
  • pseudo-intransitive — denoting an occurrence of a normally transitive verb in which a direct object is not explicitly stated or forms the subject of the sentence, as in Margaret is cooking or these apples cook well
  • reduction potential — (in a galvanic cell) the potential of the electrode at which reduction occurs.
  • reindustrialization — the revitalization of an industry or industrial society through government aid and tax incentives, modernization of factories and machinery, etc.
  • religious education — religion as school subject
  • reserved occupation — in time of war, an occupation from which one will not be called up for military service
  • reticuloendothelial — pertaining to, resembling, or involving cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
  • saint vitus's dance — chorea (def 2).
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • secondary education — education at high-school level
  • secondary qualities — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • semiconductor laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
  • sexual reproduction — reproduction involving the union of gametes.
  • smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
  • south african dutch — the Boers.
  • spider-hunting wasp — any solitary wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea, having a slender elongated body: the fast-running female hunts spiders as a food store for her larvae
  • staff-student ratio — the ratio of teachers to pupils or students in a school, college, or university
  • standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
  • stanford university — (education)   A University in the city of Palo Alto, California, noted for work in computing, especially artificial intelligence. See SAIL.
  • stationery cupboard — a cupboard where things like paper, pens and paper clips are kept
  • strangulated hernia — a hernia, especially of the intestine, that swells and constricts the blood supply of the herniated part, resulting in obstruction and gangrene.
  • superannuation fund — a fund used for paying pensions
  • suspended animation — a state of temporary cessation of the vital functions.
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