26-letter words containing c, i, t, y, e, n
- actors' equity association — a labor union for stage actors, founded in 1912 and affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
- atmospheric boundary layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- binary exponential backoff — An algorithm for dealing with contention in the use of a network. To transmit a packet the host sets a local parameter, L to 1 and transmits in one of the next L slots. If a collision occurs, it doubles L and repeats.
- bryce canyon national park — a national park in SW Utah: rock formations.
- buryat autonomous republic — an automomous republic in the Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal. About 35,650 sq. mi. (351,300 sq. km). Capital: Ulan Ude.
- carnegie mellon university — (body, education) (CMU) A university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. School of Computer Science.
- christian democratic party — any of various political parties in Europe and Latin America which combine moderate conservatism with historical links to the Christian Church
- combined cycle gas turbine — A combined cycle gas turbine is an efficient combination of gas-fired turbine and steam turbine, used in a power plant.
- communications decency act — (legal) (CDA) An amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Bill that went into effect on 1996-02-08. The law, originally proposed by Senator James Exon to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, ended up making it punishable by fines of up to $250,000 to post indecent language on the Internet anywhere that a minor could read it. Thousands of outraged Internet users turned their web pages black in protest or displayed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's special icons. On 1996-06-12, a three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled the CDA unconstitutional and issued an injunction against the United States Justice Department forbidding them to enforce the "indecency" provisions of the law. Internet users celebrated by displaying an animated "Free Speech" fireworks icon to their web pages, courtesy of the Voters Telecommunications Watch. The Justice Department appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- complementary distribution — a relation such that the members of a pair or set of phones, morphs, or other linguistic units have no environment in common, as aspirated “p” and unaspirated “p” in English, the first occurring only in positions where the second does not.
- computer-generated imagery — (graphics) (CGI) Animatied graphics produced by computer and used in film or television.
- concurrent versions system — a system that allows more than one person to work on the same file at the same time, merging their changes but keeping records of the different versions
- continuation passing style — (language) (CPS) An intermediate language for Scheme that implements continuation passing style. The CPS language is semantically clean and is used for the SML/NJ compiler.
- contrary to popular belief — You use contrary to popular belief to introduce a statement that is the opposite to what is thought to be true by most ordinary people.
- copying garbage collection — A garbage collection method where memory is divided into two equal halves, known as the "from space" and "to space". Garbage collection copies active cells from the from space to the to space and leaves behind an invisible pointer (an "indirection") from the old position to the new copy. Once all active cells have been copied in one direction, the spaces are swapped and the process repeated in the opposite direction.
- dichlorophenoxyacetic acid — a chloride derivative of phenol and acetic acid, C6H3Cl2OCH2COOH, used to destroy broad-leaved weeds without injuring grass; 2,4-D
- diethylcarbamazine citrate — a chemical substance, C 16 H 29 O 8 N 3 , used to treat worms in humans, dogs, and cats.
- distinguished flying cross — Military. a decoration awarded for heroic or extraordinary achievement while on aerial duty.
- enhanced directory service — (operating system) (EDS) A common, distributed, integrated, directory service with centralized and/or replicated administration.
- ethylenediaminetetraacetic — Alternative spelling of ethylenediaminetetracetic.
- european defence community — a plan proposed in 1950 to form a defence force including countries such as West Germany, France, and Italy. This plan was never carried out.
- finitely additive function — a set function that upon operating on the union of a finite number of disjoint sets gives the same result as the sum of the functional values of each set.
- generic expert system tool — (artificial intelligence) (GEST) An expert system shell for Symbolics Lisp machine, with frames, forward chaining, backward chaining and fuzzy logic; written by John Gilmore(?) at GA Tech.
- grand army of the republic — an organization, founded in 1866, composed of men who served in the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War: its last member died in 1956. Abbreviation: G.A.R.
- gulf intracoastal waterway — a mostly inland water route, partly natural and partly artificial, extending 1550 miles (2500 km) along the Atlantic coast from Boston to Florida Bay (Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway) and 1116 miles (1800 km) along the Gulf coast from Carrabelle, Fla., to Brownsville, Tex. (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) constructed to protect small craft from the hazards of the open sea.
- hardware abstraction layer — (operating system) (HAL) The layer of Microsoft Windows NT where they have isolated their assembly language code.
- histocompatibility antigen — any antigen on the surface of tissue or blood cells that provokes the immune response and subsequent rejection when transplanted to an individual of a different antigenic type, thus determining whether the tissues or organs of a donor and recipient are histocompatible.
- hydraulic torque converter — an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing a different torque in the other shaft.
- i bet/i'll bet/you can bet — You use expressions such as 'I bet', 'I'll bet', and 'you can bet' to indicate that you are sure something is true.
- i know (how you feel, etc) — You use 'I know' to express sympathy and understanding towards someone.
- intellectually handicapped — having learning difficulties
- intermediate care facility — a medical facility specifically providing care for chronically ill, disabled, or elderly people.
- international reply coupon — a coupon that can be exchanged for postage stamps to send a letter to a foreign country. It is used to reimburse a correspondent for postage without having to deal with foreign currencies
- java database connectivity — (database, programming) (JDBC) Part of the Java Development Kit which defines an application programming interface for Java for standard SQL access to databases from Java programs. See also Open Database Connectivity.
- macintosh operating system — (operating system) (Mac OS) Apple Computer, Inc.'s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder." The multitasking version of Finder was called "MultiFinder" until multitasking was integrated into the core of the OS with the introduction of System 7.0 in 1990. The Macintosh series provides a built-in graphics language, called "QuickDraw", which provides a standard for software developers. Mac OS 8, scheduled for delivery in July 1997, included new human-interface features, increased system stability and performance, a PowerPC processor-native Finder, tighter integration of Internet access through panel-based "assistants," Personal Web Sharing and the ability to run Java applets and programs through Mac OS Run Time for Java. Version 9.2 was the last version of the bespoke Mac OS. The next version, Mac OS X is quite different, being based on Unix. See also Macintosh file system, Macintosh user interface.
- make a virtue of necessity — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- mercalli (intensity) scale — a numerical scale for measuring the destructive power and major physical effects of an earthquake, ranging from number I (detectable only by seismographs) to number XII (causing extensive landslides, destruction of nearly all buildings, etc.)
- microcrystalline cellulose — Microcrystalline cellulose is a polymer used as a binder in tablets because it is stable, compressible, and disintegrates quickly.
- monday morning quarterback — a person who criticizes the actions or decisions of others after the fact, using hindsight to assess situations and specify alternative solutions.
- monochrome display adapter — (hardware, graphics) (MDA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PC. MDA can display only monochrome 80*25 text (IBM PC video mode 7). It is now obsolete.
- nature conservancy council — (in Britain) a body set up by act of parliament in 1973 to establish and manage nature reserves, identify SSSIs, and provide information and advice about nature conservation. In 1991–92 it was replaced by English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage, and the Countryside Council for Wales
- netware directory services — (networking) (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory represents each network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an object of a certain class, where each class has certain properties. For example, User and Print Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties such as name, login, password, department, and title. The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rules of containment. A given object can only belong to a given container (or branch). The rules governing classes, properties and, rules of containment are known as the schema.
- official production system — (language) (OPS) The first production system (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at CMU in 1970 and used for building expert systems. OPS was originally written in Franz Lisp and later ported to other LISP dialects.
- open database connectivity — (standard, database) (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve databases. An application can submit statements to ODBC using the ODBC flavor of SQL. ODBC then translates these to whatever flavor the database understands. ODBC 1.0 was released in September 1992. ODBC is based on Call-Level Interface and was defined by the SQL Access Group. Microsoft was one member of the group and was the first company to release a commercial product based on its work (under Microsoft Windows) but ODBC is not a Microsoft standard (as many people believe). ODBC drivers and development tools are available now for Microsoft Windows, Unix, OS/2, and Macintosh.
- paraconsistent probability — (logic) A notion introduced by Florentin Smarandache: The probability (T, I, F) that an event occurs is calculated from different sources which may be contradictory or may overlap information; here T, I, F are real subsets representing the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity percentages respectively, and n_sup = sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) > 100. See neutrosophic probability
- phenylethylbarbituric acid — phenobarbital.
- physical transport network — (communications) (PTN) The actual hardware through which data transfer devices are connected.
- prince henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- privately held corporation — A privately held corporation is a company whose shares cannot be bought by the general public.
- professional office system — (messaging) (PROFS) An office messaging system from IBM, used worldwide, mainly on IBM mainframes.
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